bug#40213: what-cursor-position could tell the meaning of marks too!

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But that would be slow.  The use case here is all the different
  > characters used as markers in a Gnus Summary buffer -- and there may be
  > tens of thousands of them.  Making generation of these buffers (which is
  > already slow) even slower, just to make it possible to these characters
  > for their meaning, would be a disservice to the users.

That might perhaps be slow, but my guess is it won't
take enough time to notice.  Would you like to try it and see?

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