Re: Tick Reduction

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:15:53 +0100
> 
> >                       /* Assign to the glyphs written above the
> >                          string where the `%x' came from, position
> >                          of the `%'.  */
> 
> Ah, I see.  Then perhaps the solution here is to call handle_stop at a
> strategic place in the C string case.

How would you know where to call it?  When display_string produces the
glyphs for the result of "%p", all it sees is a C string like "26%".
I don't see how it could reach out to the original mode-line spec.
the above code runs only _after_ display_string returns.