From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <pascal.quesseveur@free.fr>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Display of no break spaces
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 08:00:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FF671A9CD29E4482947EFD6DDCCD4E8A@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8638yipftx.fsf@free.fr>
> I don't understand the mechanism used to display no break
> spaces. The character is displayed as a big box with what looks
> like small numbers inside.
That means it is a character that your current font cannot display as the
character itself. The display indicates its Unicode code.
> I don't understand why the no break space is displayed using link
> face. What can I do to change the way it is displayed?
When `nobreak-char-display' is non-nil, Emacs shows nobreak spaces using face
`nobreak-space', which inherits from face `escape-glyph'.
Dunno why it says it uses face `link' - perhaps something else is also kicking
in here (e.g. it is part of a link).
Option `nobreak-char-display' turns highlighting on/off for both nobreak spaces
and nobreak hyphens - they are inseparable wrt this highlighting.
For better control over highlighting of these (and any other) characters, try
library `highlight-chars.el'.
overview: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowWhiteSpace#HighlightChars
code: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/highlight-chars.el
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 13:16 Display of no break spaces Pascal Quesseveur
2013-01-03 16:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-01-03 16:22 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.16607.1357230183.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-03 17:19 ` Pascal Quesseveur
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