From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of undisplayable characters: \U01F3A8 instead of diamond Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:03:22 +0200 Message-ID: <878rmw8085.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87edx28cl1.fsf@disroot.org> <83y1v7w6eu.fsf@gnu.org> <2f302d1c3966849477b3@heytings.org> <83mtbiovzr.fsf@gnu.org> <83a67hq3l7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtbhneht.fsf@gnu.org> <83czcakqd3.fsf@gnu.org> <87a67dxhfw.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875yi0wzx7.fsf@dataswamp.org> <834jxkk635.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29895"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:vjXGBdYipBn69G+PKBsUa1E8sLo= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 07 03:04:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVjUw-0007XR-GZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:04:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38620 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVjUv-0006MQ-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVjTb-000587-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVjTZ-000397-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:03:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVjTV-0005eB-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:03:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294805 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Something like >> >> (set-unprintable-char-char chr) > > That would require Emacs to detect all the "unprintable" > characters on each startup, which would slow down startup, > sometimes to unacceptable lengths of time. > > If you followed the discussion, this was explained and > unanimously rejected. Yes, but there is surely a way to get around that, a way that is better, since it's possible to do it's merely a question of streamlining the interface ... All this programmer stuff that are common all around Emacs and the Emacs help, all that should be gradually reduced, not added to. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal