* Re: display problem
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@ 2008-02-27 23:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2008-02-28 1:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2008-02-27 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Miles Bader; +Cc: emacs-pretest-bug, drew.adams, Kenichi Handa
storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> I think this way of merging a face and a character code in a single
>>> number is a kludge, a relic of an old era when Emacs didn't have any
>>> other way to put faces on the text, and we intended to remove this at
>>> some point. Maybe Emacs 23 is that point. We now have text
>>> properties and overlays, so we shouldn't be needing this.
>>
>> We have discussed this before; there are still uses for glyph codes
>> which aren't solved by text properties or overlays. The example I know
>> about is display tables.
>>
>> Perhaps another, better mechanism will come along which will supplant
>> glyph codes entirely, but there isn't one yet (AFAIK).
>
> We discussed using a cons cell (FACE . CHAR) for Emacs 23.
>
> This representation can be hidden inside the make-glyph-code functions.
I just installed changes to fix this problem.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
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