Re: display problem

[Kim F. Storm]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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).
>
> We discussed using a cons cell (FACE . CHAR) for Emacs 23.
>
> This representation can be hidden inside the make-glyph-code functions.

I just installed changes to fix this problem.

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