bug#56691: outline-minor-mode displays navigation arrow buttons as emojis

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But the option's value is not a simple scalar, it is a list of
> preferences, and they are supposed to be used in the order listed when
> possible.  How do you reconcile that with "I know what I'm doing"?

If there is only one element in `icon-preference', we could make
icon-string use that no matter whether we thing Emacs supports it or
not -- that'd let the user override the machinery completely, which
might be handy.

Or have elements like (emoji . force) to force it.