From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:34:08 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171157747 24699 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2007 01:35:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:35:47 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 11 02:35:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HG3cy-0003M6-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 02:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HG3cy-0005sl-Cd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HG3cn-0005sY-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HG3cl-0005s9-Bi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HG3cl-0005s6-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HG3ck-0005IX-MZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:35:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l1B1ZO4p023308 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:35:24 -0700 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l1B0x1fH023127 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:35:23 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-54.vpn.oracle.com by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2439818171171157649; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:09 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66247 Archived-At: > > What are the purposes for which people want to use it now? > > It works in display-table entries; I'm not aware of any other > way to do the same thing. > > My question is, for what specific practical purposes do people > want to use this display-table feature? Did you not get my mail with the screenshot, URL, and explanation of why I started this thread? Was that "specific practical purpose" not convincing? The same use case applies to substituting highlighted display-table entries to indicate non-breaking spaces, TABs, etc. (though there are alternative ways to do that). I asked this question - what's the answer? > Can I do the same thing somehow without specifying a face > through a glyph code? If the answer is "no", then isn't that a good reason for the feature?