GNU bug report logs - #15703
[PATCH 1/8] EWW: Support user defined representation for checkbox.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger <at> c-plusplus.de>

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:44:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 15702, 15704, 15705, 15706, 15707, 15708, 15709, 15710

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15703: [PATCH 1/8] EWW: Support user defined representation
 for checkbox.
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:50:56 -0500

>>> Ah, OK, I see.  But it seems like kind of the same ideas, so maybe a
>>> generic facility would be useful... not a font-lock interaction, but for
>>> keeping the record of "this string maps to this Unicode symbol"?
>>> Basically a big hashtable with some user control.  Then
>>> `prettify-symbols-mode' could use that facility too.
SM> I think it'd be easier to go the other way around: provide an
SM> replacement to use if/when the display font doesn't provide a glyph for
SM> that characters.
> That doesn't help with drawing trees in Unicode, for example.

I think this case is quite different: none of the proposals so far can
handle it.  And I don't think it can be handled purely locally
(i.e. without knowing that those chars are put together to represent
a tree).


        Stefan
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