Re: Tick Reduction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:12:19 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > The padding of a string should not depend on whether there's another
> > string after it.  The padding is a display feature: if some Lisp puts
> > the property on a string, that string should look the same, with the
> > same padding, regardless of where on the screen it is located, and
> > regardless of whether there's some text after it.
> 
> It does look the same, I think?  That is, nothingness that comes from a
> stretch looks like the same like the nothingness that was there before.
> 
> (But you can tell the difference in buffers if you put the point after
> it.)

Exactly.  So no, it does NOT look the same.