Re: How to change `standard-display-table' at startup.

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:12:04 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
>> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:10:36 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> When I run emacs -Q, i get:
>> 
>> standard-display-table is a variable defined in `C source code'.
>> Its value is nil
>> 
>> this is 
>> 
>> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of
>> 2008-06-06 on robotron
>
> Strange...  Anyway, does it work to do what Johan suggested:
>
>     (unless standard-display-table
>       (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))

Yes, that works.  Another oddity I just encountered:  C-u C-x = on a
backtick signals an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 4194400)
  get-char-code-property(4194400 iso-10646-comment)
  describe-char(193)
  what-cursor-position((4))
  call-interactively(what-cursor-position nil nil)

David