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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.



  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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