From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
Cc: 57693@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57693: 29.0.50; Is there a more reliable version of `char-displayable-p'?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 18:25:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=z2Q_b-bwW6E5CyOP_tRVnhXWCX-x7gdePpTLSPqoECg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfl07j9b.fsf@gmail.com>
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> Ihor> False-positives are indeed not unexpected in char-displayable-p; just as
> Ihor> its docstring warns. However, I am now wondering if there is some more
> Ihor> accurate way to know if a character can be actually displayed on buffer
> Ihor> or not.
>
> Iʼd look at the guts of `describe-char-display' in
> "lisp/descr-text.el" for inspiration (or even use it as is). It takes
> a `pos' argument so you may have to wrap it in `with-temp-buffer' +
> `insert'.
I know very little about this area of Emacs, but is there any reason why
we couldn't just (try to) make `char-displayable-p' more accurate?
I'm not asking for a perfect solution, but even just making it a bit
better might be a step forward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-09 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-09 13:25 bug#57693: 29.0.50; Is there a more reliable version of `char-displayable-p'? Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-09 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-09 22:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-10 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 6:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 6:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 4:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 6:37 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 8:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 8:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 9:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-11 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-11 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-12 5:46 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-12 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-13 1:44 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-13 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-14 1:52 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-14 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 19:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-17 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-17 22:31 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-18 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-18 9:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-18 9:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-18 11:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-18 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-19 11:31 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-19 11:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-19 12:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-19 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-19 14:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-19 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-18 11:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-18 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-12 5:24 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-09 13:46 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-09 22:25 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-09-10 4:56 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-09-10 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-10 4:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
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