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?

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