Re: Whitespace in mode line of 29.1-rc1 emacsclient frames

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, Visuwesh  wrote:

> [வியாழன் ஜூலை 27, 2023] Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> With Emacs 28.2 the mode line used to look like this for an emacsclient
>> frame (e.g. for the *scratch* buffer):
>> 
>> U:@---  *scratch*      All L4     (Lisp Interaction ElDoc)
>> 
>> With Emacs 29.1-rc1 I get:
>> 
>> U:   @---    *scratch*      All   L4     (Lisp Interaction ElDoc)
>> 
>> Especially I wonder about the whitespace between : and @ close to the
>> beginning of the line.

>> Looks like it originates from (min-width (5.0)) in mode-line-position
>> [correction: standard-mode-line-format]?

> Yes.  See bug#58183 [1].  I see this too but cannot reproduce it
> reliably.  Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time recently to look
> deeply into this issue.
> FWIW, this issue goes away if you set mode-line-compact which is why it
> took me a long time to notice.

> 1. https://yhetil.org/emacs-bugs/87r0ztuaj5.fsf@miha-pc/

Thank you very much! I wasn't aware that mode-line-compact exists.

Still, min-width should probably apply to the whole U:@--- string, not
to individual characters of it?