From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabulated-list-init-header and glyphless-char-display Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:57:15 -0300 Message-ID: References: <83mxk0u0g7.fsf@gnu.org> <874o68zjhi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83k4f4twam.fsf@gnu.org> <8762qnxm44.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83hba6rqtm.fsf@gnu.org> <87mxjyht7w.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83pqosra90.fsf@gnu.org> <87pqosg0ea.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83oc4cr7fe.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcykaazw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83mxjwr3ki.fsf@gnu.org> <87lizgto6g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302580758 30695 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 03:59:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:59:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 05:59:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from [140.186.70.17] (helo=lists.gnu.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Ukv-0003br-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:59:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47950 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Ukt-0006Ip-Jv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Ukr-0006Ia-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Ukq-0007tV-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:53128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Ukq-0007tN-Nl; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p3C40M5t016490; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 97210660EF; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:57:15 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87lizgto6g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:31:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3824=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <3824> : streams <620215> : uri <848753> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 140.186.70.17 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138419 Archived-At: > I suspect there will be other situations where it's convenient to use > unicode glyphs in Emacs buffers. If we can design a sufficiently > flexible system, I think this is a good investment. Agreed. cvs-status has suffered from this problem since its creation, and this problem is the main reason why list-buffers doesn't have such little arrows to indicate the sorting order (I wrote some code for it but could never convince myself to install it because of this problem). Stefan