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On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 01:05, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I think it would be a cleaner interface to add an optional way to
> specify an ellipsis in truncate-string-to-width.

Have we come to any conclusion on this issue?  In this case I think
Richard is right in that adding to `truncate-string-to-width' would be
better.

Regardless, I would definitely like to have this functionality available
in both Emacs and XEmacs.