Re: display problem

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I think this way of merging a face and a character code in a single
> number is a kludge, a relic of an old era when Emacs didn't have any
> other way to put faces on the text, and we intended to remove this at
> some point.  Maybe Emacs 23 is that point.  We now have text
> properties and overlays, so we shouldn't be needing this.

We have discussed this before; there are still uses for glyph codes
which aren't solved by text properties or overlays.  The example I know
about is display tables.

Perhaps another, better mechanism will come along which will supplant
glyph codes entirely, but there isn't one yet (AFAIK).

-Miles

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