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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>,
	Zephyr Pellerin <zephyr.pellerin@gmail.com>,
	22919@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:04:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d02n58lx.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jgziuaz15q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:46:25 -0500")

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Alexis wrote:
>
>> to suggest this patch not be applied without also either adding a way
>> to customise which character gets used as the square root symbol, or
>> logic to only display a square root glyph when it's certain it's
>> available.
>
> See eg ruler-mode-fill-column-char and how it uses char-displayable-p.

There was then some worry whether that would work on ttys...  but I
think that's perhaps a too-obscure use case to hinder this change, so I
went ahead and applied the patch (with Glenn's suggestions) to Emacs 28.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-15 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-06  3:02 bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root Zephyr Pellerin
2016-03-06  5:58 ` Alexis
2016-03-07 16:46   ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-07 17:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08  7:22       ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-08 16:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-15 16:04     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]

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