bug#34476: fluffy whitespace in the mode-line, despite it running off the screen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Perhaps this will prod us into uncovering and fixing the last few
>> glitches.  :-)
>
> One can dream.

I've now gone ahead and polished up this a bit (and introduced the
`long' setting, too).  After using it for a while, I see the obvious
thing that `format-mode-line' does wrong -- it discards all text
properties?  So I'll open a new bug report for that, and I'm closing
this bug report.

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