From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: face vs. mouse-face text property
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:04:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C420F324-C971-4C5D-9237-B032699DD779@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RpZMC-0006I7-29@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:48:25 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>>>>> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
>>>>> Maybe  and ⇥ would be useful here?
>>>>
>>>> What will that do on a TTY?
>>>
>>>
>>> The same thing that quotation marks do
>>
>> The characters you propose are much less popular, so run greater risk
>> of being not covered by the console fonts.
>
> E.g., PuTTY in UTF-8 display mode shows them as empty rectangles.
I trust your experience far more than mine these days, but I have to wonder if empty rectangle might not be good enough for the suggested use case. I assume that C-x = DTRT with those empty rectangles?
*Chad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-18 21:34 face vs. mouse-face text property Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-19 7:20 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-19 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-20 20:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-21 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-22 22:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-23 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 14:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 18:47 ` chad
2012-01-23 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 21:09 ` chad
2012-01-24 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 7:04 ` chad [this message]
2012-01-24 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 11:14 ` chad
2012-01-24 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-24 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
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