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Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible
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Will Parsons |
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Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible |
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Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:37:36 -0400 |
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On Saturday, 16 Jun 2018 4:15 PM -0400, Will Parsons wrote:
> I have a desire to use the Unicode character A007 (FIGURE SPACE) in a
> document and to be able to distinguish it visually from a regular ASCII
> space. This seems to be already done in the case of 00A0 (NO-BREAK
> SPACE) which appears as an underscore with a distinctive face.
>
> It *looks* like I should be able to do this via the customization
> option "Whitespace Display Mappings", but no matter what I do,
> attempting to "Apply" the changes results in an error message, "This
> field should contain a single character". (This message occurs even
> if I try to change one of the display characters of an existing entry
> in the list and apply.)
>
> Feeling desperate, I copied the existing value of
> whitespace-display-mappings directly into my custom.el file, and
> manually added a new entry for A007 (8199) on the model of the
> existing entry for 00A0 (160), but this seems to have no effect on the
> display.
>
> (This is using Emacs 25, in case it should make a difference.)
Correction: FIGURE SPACE is actually 0x2007, not 0xA007, but that's
simply a mistake in my post, not the actual code. (Sorry for not
being more careful.)
--
Will
- Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Will Parsons, 2018/06/16
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible,
Will Parsons <=
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
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- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Will Parsons, 2018/06/18
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Noam Postavsky, 2018/06/18
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- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Will Parsons, 2018/06/18