Re: Buffers menu question

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 30 Apr 2002, Miles Bader wrote:

> Usually, one displays
> either `*' or SPC, followed by `%' or SPC, and the problem that the
> widths of `*' and `%' are radically different from that of SPC.
> 
> If you could use something besides SPC that was visually undistracting
> enough to not be a problem, you could use that as alternative to the SPC
> character.

Could we use the same characters, `*' and `%' respectively, but make them 
invisible?  Like display them with the foreground identical to the 
background?