From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:36:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2ryv0cn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83li7ocdkb.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2sp92vb.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87bo877kf7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87obbs7cew.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ip1y54fx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ehck6670.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87a9n854tx.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8761xw54rv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sj0y4p7h.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ppw13aky.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874ndc39bt.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370590611 22090 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 07:36:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 07:36:51 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 09:36:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkrEB-0003X1-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:36:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkrEA-0001er-Rg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:36:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkrE3-0001dn-By for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:36:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkrDy-00039W-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkrDy-00039P-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:36:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MO000800IARK500@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:36:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MO00083UIH0E770@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:36:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <874ndc39bt.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160190 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:45:26 -0400 > > (Aside: I attempted to use `compose-region' to build more complicated > compositions besides a single character. The docstring says the > COMPONENTS format can be several things, including: > > "If it is a vector or list, it is a sequence of alternate characters and > composition rules, where (2N)th elements are characters and (2N+1)th > elements are composition rules to specify how to compose (2N+2)th > elements with previously composed N glyphs." > > I stared at this for a while then I gave up. It really needs one or two > examples and an alternate wording, because I have no idea what it says.) There's a reference to reference-point-alist, which I think has those details. As for examples, you can see them in tv-util.el, for example. > It would be really nice to be able to [...] use an image to create a > glyph. I don't understand this: Emacs _can_ display an image, so what can you possibly mean by "use an image to create a glyph"? What is a "glyph" in this context?