From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to change `standard-display-table' at startup. Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:31:58 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87skvpylrl.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <87zlpy1g0q.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87r6ba1cyl.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87abhx0zwj.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212874734 28712 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 21:38:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:38:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 23:39:37 2008 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 1K568O-0005YM-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:39:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34975 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K567b-0006zs-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K567H-0006x2-Ln for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K567D-0006tF-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46694 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K567D-0006t4-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:43133 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 1K567D-0001n3-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K5676-00043c-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:38:16 +0000 Original-Received: from e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.28.44]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:38:16 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:38:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178028044.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Aizxx0zxKqhugGobTWuLf6JLosM= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:54593 Archived-At: On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:12:04 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: David Hansen >> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:10:36 +0200 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> When I run emacs -Q, i get: >> >> standard-display-table is a variable defined in `C source code'. >> Its value is nil >> >> this is >> >> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of >> 2008-06-06 on robotron > > Strange... Anyway, does it work to do what Johan suggested: > > (unless standard-display-table > (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table))) Yes, that works. Another oddity I just encountered: C-u C-x = on a backtick signals an error: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 4194400) get-char-code-property(4194400 iso-10646-comment) describe-char(193) what-cursor-position((4)) call-interactively(what-cursor-position nil nil) David