Re: Unreadable buffer names in Emacs 23.2

[Tim X]

Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> writes:

> On 2010-08-14, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>>> All buffers are displayed perfectly (same font) - even with syntax
>>> highlighting. Buffers that contain buffer names also display
>>> everything properly -- except for buffer names!
>>>
>> So the buffer names have exactly the same set of characters that appear
>> in other buffers that display OK? Seems very strange. Text in a buffer
>> is text in a buffer. Once the text is in a buffer, Emacs doesn't really
>> know whether it is a buffer name or some other text. 
>
> Of course it may know this!  Only after you remove properties text
> becomes "a plain text"...  One should try
> Edit/Text_Properties/Whatever_the_spelling_of_remove_is...
>
Technically, you are right in that this would be possible, but I don't
believe there are any font properties used to indicate that a bit of
text is a buffer name. 

Tim

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