I came across this weird behaviour, here's how I got here:
1. (setq truncate-lines t) ; to truncate lines
2. (global-whitespace-mode) ; to highlight trailing whitespace
3. (set-display-table-slot
standard-display-table
'truncation ?…) ; to change the truncation character from
; '$' to '…'
Step 3. only seems to work when step 2. is off. I've tried this on both mine and stock's config, GUI and TUI and it doesn't change (see attachment)
Anyone could shed a light on what's going on?