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ui: track label expansion when creating buffers

As part of profiling `hg log` performance, I noticed a lot of time
is spent in buffered writes to ui instances. This patch starts a series
that refactors buffered writes with the eventual intent to improve
performance.

Currently, labels are expanded when buffers are popped. This means
we have to preserve the original text and the label until we render
the final output. This is avoidable overhead and adds complexity
since we're retaining state.

This patch adds functionality to ui.pushbuffer() to declare whether
label expansion should be active for the buffer. Labels are still
evaluated during buffer pop. This will change in a subsequent
patch.

Since we'll need to access the "expand labels" flag on future write()
operations, we prematurely optimize how the current value is stored
to optimize for rapid retrieval.

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