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Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 09 May 2013 14:30:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:32 -0400
>> Cc: James Cloos <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>>
>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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.
>
> Does char-displayable-p detect that this glyph cannot be displayed in
> your environment? If so, perhaps we could have the cake and eat it,
> too.
Using char-displayable-p to change the contents of a buffer does not
work in the multi-tty world. What is displayable when the buffer is
shown in one terminal, might not be in another.
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, (continued)
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2013/05/09
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Andreas Röhler, 2013/05/09
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, James Cloos, 2013/05/09
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/17
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/17
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/18
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Dan Nicolaescu, 2013/05/29
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2013/05/30
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Ted Zlatanov, 2013/05/30
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: using glyphs by default in perl-mode, Richard Stallman, 2013/05/09