From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:58:04 +0000 Message-ID: <20150609165804.GB3735@acm.fritz.box> References: <556C81C4.3010107@cs.ucla.edu> <20150601171723.GB16298@acm.fritz.box> <556CA97C.8070807@cs.ucla.edu> <20150602115600.GA3468@acm.fritz.box> <556DCE36.9070505@cs.ucla.edu> <20150602170724.GA2567@acm.fritz.box> <20150602204423.GA2619@acm.fritz.box> <55707236.6060605@cs.ucla.edu> <20150606155445.GE3418@acm.fritz.box> <85r3pny7xi.fsf@iznogoud.viz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433869106 30970 80.91.229.3 (9 Jun 2015 16:58:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20707@debbugs.gnu.org To: Wolfgang Jenkner Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 09 18:58:14 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqr-0002C5-WB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqr-0003Et-2j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37351) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqo-0003Ed-57 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqh-0007uH-C7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqh-0007u2-9W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2Mqg-0002dW-Up for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:58:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:58:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20707 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20707-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20707.143386906010104 (code B ref 20707); Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:58:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20707) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Jun 2015 16:57:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46427 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2MqJ-0002ct-Rz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:13339) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2MqG-0002ci-MA for 20707@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 48212 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Jun 2015 16:57:35 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548A4C34.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.138.76.52]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:57:33 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 9135 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Jun 2015 16:58:04 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85r3pny7xi.fsf@iznogoud.viz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103775 Archived-At: Hello, Wolfgang. On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 03:17:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06 2015, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On the Linux console, there are a maximum of 256 glyphs which can be > > displayed (or 512 if you're prepared to do without half of the colours), > > each of which can be assigned to an arbitrary set of unicode characters. > > This limit is a hangover from video hardware made ~30 years ago, and it > > is a shame that it still persists, even on modern software generated > > video. > There are graphical (framebuffer based, no X needed) terminal emulators > for GNU/Linux which don't have this limitation on the number of glyphs, > in particular fbterm is quite nice, see the thread around > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/143665 Is fbterm still a live project? Its home page on googlecode doesn't show any activity after 2010. > There's also the newer (and perhaps not so widely available?) kmscon. I think that's an X-based program, isn't it? > (Also, FreeBSD now provides a very capable graphical console out of the > box.) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).