bug#33740: [PATCH] Customizable flymake mode-line indicator

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Apply the properties judiciously to specific parts of the mode-line
> string, not wholesale to all of it.

That's what I did (or tried to do).  I basically made the function
return something like

(concat "foo" (propertize "bar" 'face 'bold) "zot")

but the "bar" remained non-bold in the mode line.  If that's supposed to
work, then there's something else wrong with my code, I guess?

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