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Re: Fill column indicator functionality


From: Ergus
Subject: Re: Fill column indicator functionality
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 17:04:04 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 02:47:47PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 12:36:14 +0200
From: Ergus <address@hidden>

The problem now is that I added it to cus-start.el but when I set it
with the interface, the line does not change at all. Nothing really
happens when I save.

Does invoking 'redisplay' (the function) fix that?

No

>- when I turn it on, it chooses \u2502, which is not displayable by my
>default font, but is displayable by a fallback font. I end up with
>empty blocks at the end of each line. I can probably customize
>'fill-column-face' to work around this, but Iʼd expect this to work by
>default (either by using '|' or using the fallback font).
>
I don't really find a right method to fix this because the
char-displayable-p function seems not to be accurate in many
cases. There was a discussion about this before, but there was not a
final agreement I think. And from the char-displayable-p documentation:

```
On a multi-font display, the test is only whether there is an
appropriate font from the selected frame's fontset to display
CHAR's charset in general.  Since fonts may be specified on a
per-character basis, this may not be accurate.
```

Any suggestion here?

Once we have the details I requested from Robert.

>- in org-mode buffers the indicator is displayed as '['. This may be
>related to the previous point (those buffers use yet a third font).

How come '|' is displayed as '['?  What does Emacs show in *Help* if
you (Robert) go to that character and type "C-u C-x ="?



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