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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: how to display a character with a specific glyph and face ?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:01:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1b2e052-3bce-4d42-a5f0-12390323ac0d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<837fzq6jbw.fsf@gnu.org>>

> > Instead of modifying the standard-display-table, I should modify
> > the escape-glyph face, isn't it ?
> 
> Either the escape-glyph face, or, if you are only interested in the
> no-break space character, the nobreak-space face.

If you want to highlight only hard (i.e., no-break) spaces, and
not also hard hyphens, or if you want font-lock to control the
highlighting, then you can use library `highlight-chars.el'.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ShowWhiteSpace#HighlightChars
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/highlight-chars.el

You can turn on/off such highlighting:
 * in the current buffer only (i.e., locally),
 * globally whenever FontLockMode is turned on, or
 * automatically whenever a buffer is in a given major mode



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11860.1414070397.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-10-23 13:30 ` how to display a character with a specific glyph and face ? Stefan Monnier
2014-10-24  6:14   ` Boiteux Frederic
2014-10-24  7:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <<837fzq6jbw.fsf@gnu.org>
2014-10-24 14:01       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-24 14:49         ` Boiteux Frederic
2014-10-23 12:57 Boiteux Frederic
2014-10-23 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii

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