Re: Operation of format-mode-line

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

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On Wednesday, July 24th, 2024 at 7:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:56:47 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > Seems that the text properties are the same for each character.
> > > 
> > > They are not.
> > 
> > If the buffer name is provodilac.el, what is the difference in text proporties
> > between the different characters ? I see there are faces and code for mouse
> > action whether I use position 0, 1, 2, etc.
> 
> 
> All the characters that belong to the buffer name indeed have the same
> properties. But not all of the characters of the string returned by
> format-mode-line.

Returning the text properties from position 0 would ensure that the properties one gets are associated with the the buffer name.  Is this correct when doing

(text-properties-at 0 (format-mode-line mode-line-buffer-identification))