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 14:39:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83li7ocdkb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368124805 18810 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2013 18:40:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 09 20:40:04 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 1UaVl4-0002Iw-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 20:40:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaVl4-0000o2-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 14:40:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaVkz-0000ng-Ht for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 14:39:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaVkx-0004JF-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 14:39:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaVkx-0004JB-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 14:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaVkw-00028v-9y; Thu, 09 May 2013 14:39:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 09 May 2013 13:22:45 -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:159452 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Does char-displayable-p detect that this glyph cannot be displayed in >> your environment? > > It might/should when he uses LANG=C but not when he uses a utf-8 environment. > >> If so, perhaps we could have the cake and eat it, too. > > I don't think we can (even less so if you consider emacsclient use). > > But most of the people I showed it to liked the feature, which is why > I'd like to keep it ON by default, even though it's obviously not > a terribly important feature. Given that the feature breaks on the Linux console, which is a small, but still a significant target (it probably has more users that a lot of other systems that emacs still supports) it does not seem like it's a good idea to have it on.