From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Display "dash" as "minus" in programming language mode?
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h33grg$dum$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874otm28kw.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> I have an arguably odd question: Is it possible to tell Emacs to
> display every "dash" character as an "en-dash" character?
>
> The reason is that I use the DejaVu fonts which have a particularly
> short dash. In source code, this is unfortunate. Is is possible to
> use e.g. font-lock-mode to substitute "en-dash" or "minus" for every
> "dash"?
How about:
(aset (or standard-display-table
(setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))
?- [?\u2013])
Or for just programming language mode foo:
(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(aset (or buffer-display-table
(setq buffer-display-table (make-display-table)))
?- [?\u2013])))
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 21:01 Display "dash" as "minus" in programming language mode? Torsten Bronger
2009-07-08 21:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-09 7:56 ` Torsten Bronger
2009-07-09 9:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-09 9:15 ` Torsten Bronger
2009-07-09 11:04 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-10 14:15 ` Torsten Bronger
2009-07-09 1:23 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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