On Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 01:20:52 PM GMT+2, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 17:06:57 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: "78522@debbugs.gnu.org" <78522@debbugs.gnu.org>
>
> The patch improved a bit, but didn't solved it totally.
>
> I mean:
>
> > M-x standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs ;; This looks as expected
> > M-x whitespace-mode ;; reverts the effect
>
> This part of the issue is still there exactly like before.

??? I've just tried, and it definitely does solve the problem here.

Or maybe I don't understand well enough what you mean by "reverts the
effect"? You've never actually shown a recipe with detailed
explanations which explain what exactly is "reverted". Because
standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs by itself doesn't change
anything on display in 'emacs -Q", you must do something else to see
its effect. In my testing, I used "C-x 3", which shows the vertical
border between two windows using a Unicode character when
standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs is in effect. Before my
changes, whitespace-mode would revert the border back to the ASCII
characters they used originally; after my changes this no longer
happens.

emacs -Q -nw

C-x 3 ;; See the vertical division line with |

S-M-: (standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs) ;; See the vertical division line with #x2502

M-x whitespace-mode ;; See the vertical division line reverted to |

M-x whitespace-mode ;; whitespace mode disabled vertical divisor back to #x2502

M-x whitespace-mode ;; whitespace mode enabled again, vertical divisor stays #x2502

So what is your recipe, starting from "emacs -Q", where you see that
whitespace-mode still reverts the effect of

standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs?

> But, if I do latter:
>
> M-x whitespace-mode ;; disables whitespace and restores special-glyphs
> M-x whitespace-mode ;; re-enable whitespace mode and keeps special-glyphs
>
> Then it looks correctly.

What "special glyphs" are you talking about, and how do you make Emacs
display them?