bug#30056: 25.3; battery-mode-line-string missing leading space

[Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>]

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:20 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:
>
> > I find that idea intriguing.  It would work, and it's a useful feature
> > to have as an Emacs Lisp developer, because it provide a robust solution
> > to the problem of "I want to have a space separation in the mode line,
> > but I don't know what comes before/after me".
> >
> > Although personally, I feel a little dirty adding a new %-construct just
> > for this.
>
> I think we either have to do this, or introduce a formal convention for
> these strings that say either to always add a space to the front or the
> back of them.
>
> I guess we don't really see this much as a problem in practice, because
> we don't have many of these "non-mode" strings in the mode line.
>
> So perhaps settling on a convention and then altering all the instances
> to follow it would be more efficient -- there's probably just a few
> dozen of them?
>

I'm fine with that (I assumed that such a convention already existed
previously on this bug's thread).


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