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Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM |
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Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:06:13 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Both glyphless-char-display and display table control the
> displaying of each character. I think such a control should
> be done by a single mechanism. At least it will benefit
> users in a long run.
Agreed.
> Currently, a display table element is nil or vector of characters.
> If there's a code that assumes that a non-nil element is a vector of
> characters, it will be broken.
Let's not worry about that case for now. Such code is probably rare and
easy to fix.
> Next, a display table is not inherited. So, if
> buffer-display-table or a window-specific display is set,
> standard-display-table is not looked up.
IIRC that's a bug in itself that should be fixed.
> At last, there are several standard-display-XXX functions
> (e.g. standard-display-8bit). At the moment, I don't know how to make
> the functionality of glyphless-char-display-control go with them.
Most of those functions are largely historical baggage whose precise
meaning has evolved over time, so I think it's OK to change it yet a bit
further (and to deprecate them more if needed).
Stefan
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Andreas Schwab, 2010/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Andreas Schwab, 2010/11/19
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Stefan Monnier, 2010/11/18
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/18
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/17
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Kenichi Handa, 2010/11/26
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Treatment of LRE,RLE,LRO,RLO,PDF,LRM,RLM, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/11/27
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