On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:20 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Allen Li 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). > > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no >