From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel
Subject: Re: Buffers menu question
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:05:24 +0300 (IDT)
Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020430080355.3296G-100000@is>
References: <87k7qq56a6.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020143376 2058 127.0.0.1 (30 Apr 2002 05:09:36 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:09:36 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Return-path: <emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org>
Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244])
	by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian))
	id 172PtP-0000X5-00
	for <emacs-devel@main.gmane.org>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:09:35 +0200
Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164])
	by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
	id 172PxV-0002P5-00
	for <emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:13:49 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 172PtA-0007GQ-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:09:20 -0400
Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2])
	by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian))
	id 172Pqx-00079u-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:07:04 -0400
Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2])
	by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA03691;
	Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:05:24 +0300 (IDT)
X-Sender: eliz@is
Original-To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <87k7qq56a6.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>
Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org
X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9
Precedence: bulk
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org>
List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
List-Id: Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>,
	<mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/>
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3434
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3434


On 30 Apr 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Usually, one displays
> either `*' or SPC, followed by `%' or SPC, and the problem that the
> widths of `*' and `%' are radically different from that of SPC.
> 
> If you could use something besides SPC that was visually undistracting
> enough to not be a problem, you could use that as alternative to the SPC
> character.

Could we use the same characters, `*' and `%' respectively, but make them 
invisible?  Like display them with the foreground identical to the 
background?