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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: 30883@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30883: 27.0.50; completions-annotations face should not be based on italic by default
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:35:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83po3ylkf8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eq6iuxm.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:16:37 +0100)

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:16:37 +0100
> 
> When using insert-char interactively to insert т (CYRILLIC SMALL
> LETTER TE), the completions buffer uses the completions-annotations
> face to display the character after the full unicode name. т is one of
> those characters for which the italic glyph is very different from the
> non-italic one (it actually looks like an 'm'), which is highly
> misleading for the user.

I guess it depends on the default font, because on my system the
italic glyph looks very reasonably similar to the roman variant.

> The easy solution would be to just base the completions-annotations
> face on the default face, but Iʼm sure thereʼs a historical reason for
> its existence.

FWIW, I happen to like the typeface we use there, so I think we should
go to a more boring display only if we have a very good reason.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-20 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20 16:16 bug#30883: 27.0.50; completions-annotations face should not be based on italic by default Robert Pluim
2018-03-20 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-21  9:37   ` Robert Pluim
2021-06-25 14:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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