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Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:19:24 +0200 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:49:09 -0500
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> Specifying faces thru glyph codes is kludgy and perhaps obsolete. I
> think it calls for a total redesign, perhaps not before Emacs 23.
Agreed.
> It was added at a time when there was no other way to specify faces
> for buffer text. It doesn't seem very useful to me now. So maybe we
> should delete it instead of redesigning it.
I think we shouldn't consider deleting it now, for the same reasons we
shouldn't consider redesigning it: we should move aside anything
except bad bugs and remaining copyright problems, anything that might
delay the release for no good reason!
Deleting such a veteran, if kludgy, feature so close to the release
runs a high risk of producing additional bugs, complaints, long
discussions, etc. etc. Why risk that now?
> What are the purposes for which people want to use it now?
Emacs itself uses that, see dos-unsupported-char-glyph. (And yes, the
MS-DOS port is still supported in Emacs 22.) Am I supposed to rewrite
the variable, its doc string, and the associated manual sections, so
close to the release? To what end??
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, (continued)
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/09
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/09
- RE: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Drew Adams, 2007/02/09
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/10
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Miles Bader, 2007/02/11
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/11
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/12
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Kim F. Storm, 2007/02/14
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/10
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Miles Bader, 2007/02/10
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/10
- RE: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Drew Adams, 2007/02/10
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Miles Bader, 2007/02/11
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/12
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Stuart D. Herring, 2007/02/09
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/08
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/08
- Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/02/08