From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:45:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hba3quzi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei578n52.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:12:09 -0400
>
> Instead of changing the meaning of glyphless-char-display, it might be
> better to use a new char-table---say, fallback-display-table, by analogy
> with buffer-display-table.
I don't think using a display table is a good idea, because the
display engine handles display tables in quite a different way from
the glyphless-char-display support, and on a very different level.
> OTOH, it's also more complicated to implement than the text-property
> idea; the mapping must be done somewhere in get_next_display_element,
> just after we determine the font to use for a multibyte character,
> compared to just adding a few lines to x_produce_glyphs. But I agree
> that it's probably a cleaner system. I'll look into it.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-12 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 17:17 tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 18:27 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-08 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 19:26 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-10 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 15:47 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-10 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 18:11 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 17:31 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 18:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-11 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 22:31 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-12 3:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-12 4:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 5:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-04-12 5:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-12 16:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-12 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-08 17:26 Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 10:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-04-09 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-09 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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