From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>, 17782@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17782: 24.3; package.el: searches don't see elided chars of package name
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 18:14:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878spv1afs.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e5gs8pr.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:37:20 +0100")
"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
> I'm curious to know why the ellipsis is added as a display property in
> truncate-string-to-width[1] instead of making the relevant text
> invisible[2]. Isn't this behaviour too specific to this use case to
> justify extending truncate-string-to-width with it?
Sorry, I don't quite understand? Making the text invisible would make
it look visually different than what it used to look like, so the
ellipsis have to be added to avoid changing the look.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-14 20:58 bug#17782: 24.3; package.el: searches don't see elided chars of package name Samuel Bronson
2019-10-07 18:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-07 18:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-07 18:37 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-08 16:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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