From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display "dash" as "minus" in programming language mode? Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:23:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <874otm28kw.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247102687 14394 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2009 01:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 03:24:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MOiNM-0002Pa-FC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:24:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOiNL-0007r4-S5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOiN0-0007qh-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOiMw-0007nq-1p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:24:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35121 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOiMv-0007nn-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38765 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOiMv-00021M-C3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MOiMt-0002B5-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:11 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:11 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Macintosh/20090605) In-Reply-To: <874otm28kw.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65868 Archived-At: 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