From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yxq1u9gnmhn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvip2um89k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 08 May 2013 00:02:32 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> I does not work on the Linux console of a Fedora 18 machine using
>>>> en_us.UTF-8.
>>> Do you also see question marks, or do you see something else?
>> It looks like a small white square.
>
> Thanks. This one is a problem of font, which might be solvable by
> fiddling with your console's font, but Emacs has no way to tell whether
This is the default font for the console. Normal users cannot change
the console font.
This means that a Linux console is unusable to edit perl code by
default.
What problem does showing a glyph instead of -> solve? This looks like
a personal preference, and one that causes problems.
Please revert this change, it is fundamentally broken as a default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-09 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-30 0:50 using glyphs by default in perl-mode Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-05 4:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-05 7:34 ` James Cloos
2013-05-06 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-06 4:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-06 15:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-07 16:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-07 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-08 3:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-08 4:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 16:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2013-05-09 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-05-09 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 18:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-09 18:58 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-09 19:31 ` James Cloos
2013-05-17 13:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-17 15:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-19 2:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 0:01 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-30 14:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-05-30 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-30 20:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-01 6:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-06-01 13:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-01 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-02 12:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-02 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-03 2:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-03 2:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-03 7:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-04 1:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-04 14:28 ` Davis Herring
2013-06-04 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-04 20:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 14:45 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 16:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 17:28 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 17:42 ` joakim
2013-06-05 17:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 17:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 18:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 19:36 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 20:13 ` joakim
2013-06-05 16:43 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-05 17:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 18:07 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-05 18:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-05 19:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-05 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 7:45 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-07 12:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-07 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 12:53 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-06-07 14:16 ` compose-region docstring update (was: using glyphs by default in perl-mode) Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-09 12:45 ` Kenichi Handa
[not found] ` <87li6m1i0m.fsf__1024.55602395839$1370591197$gmane$org@gmail.com>
2013-06-07 13:05 ` bug#13189: using glyphs by default in perl-mode Ted Zlatanov
2013-06-07 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-09 18:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2013-05-10 0:23 ` Richard Stallman
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