From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:52:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y7n9ins4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <864ppxhw0l.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <873b5ep0z6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y7n4n5ij.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171302874 26019 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2007 17:54:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 18:54:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGfNh-0002PA-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:54:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfNh-0001dN-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfNU-0001bn-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfNT-0001bK-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfNT-0001bH-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:54:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HGfNS-0000rM-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:54:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HGfMC-00079V-Fj; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:52:52 -0500 In-reply-to: <87y7n4n5ij.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:16:52 +0900) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66295 Archived-At: I use it for my `visible-whitespace-mode' package. It uses the display-table to cause whitespace to appear as graphic characters, and puts faces on them because they should appear distinct from normal buffer text. I gather you remap these whitespace characters to other characters as well as specifying a face. Ok, we should keep that capability.