Eldoc: play nice with mode-line-format-right-align (bug#68547)

* lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el (eldoc-minibuffer-message): Avoid nesting
'mode-line-format', since that breaks 'mode-line-format-right-align'.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
index 06970d40e8a..912a7357ca7 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/eldoc.el
@@ -312,9 +312,11 @@ Otherwise, it displays the message like `message' would."
                      (not (and (listp mode-line-format)
                                (assq 'eldoc-mode-line-string mode-line-format))))
             (setq mode-line-format
-                  (list "" '(eldoc-mode-line-string
-                             (" " eldoc-mode-line-string " "))
-                        mode-line-format)))
+                  (funcall
+                   (if (listp mode-line-format) #'append #'list)
+                   (list "" '(eldoc-mode-line-string
+                              (" " eldoc-mode-line-string " ")))
+                   mode-line-format)))
           (setq eldoc-mode-line-string
                 (when (stringp format-string)
                   (apply #'format-message format-string args)))