From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368117106 32576 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2013 16:31:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 16:31:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: James Cloos , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 18:31:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTks-0001h1-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 18:31:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTks-00065I-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38872) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTkn-0005y0-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTkk-0002fm-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTkj-0002fi-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:34 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaTkj-0006kV-9P; Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 08 May 2013 00:02:32 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159448 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> I does not work on the Linux console of a Fedora 18 machine using >>>> en_us.UTF-8. >>> Do you also see question marks, or do you see something else? >> It looks like a small white square. > > Thanks. This one is a problem of font, which might be solvable by > fiddling with your console's font, but Emacs has no way to tell whether This is the default font for the console. Normal users cannot change the console font. This means that a Linux console is unusable to edit perl code by default. What problem does showing a glyph instead of -> solve? This looks like a personal preference, and one that causes problems. Please revert this change, it is fundamentally broken as a default.