GNU bug report logs - #78522
31.0.50; Conflict between standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs and whitespace-mode

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Message #23 received at 78522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 78522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
Subject: Re: bug#78522: 31.0.50; Conflict between
 standard-display-unicode-special-glyphs and whitespace-mode
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:16:25 +0530

[சனி மே 31, 2025] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 21:14:35 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>
>> Cc: "gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com" <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>, 
>> 	"78522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <78522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
>> 
>> > > 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 -nwC-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
>
> I cannot reproduce the revert in the initial "M-x whitespace-mode".  I
> wonder whether you have some local copy of whitespace.el which shadows
> the one you patched, or some other local customization.
>
> Can anyone else try the patch and the recipe, and report back?

After saying M-x whitespace-mode the first time, the vertical division
line is not changed to the ASCII pipe character with the patch applied.
Needless to say, turning off whitespace-mode and on again does not make
the vertical division line go back to being the ASCII character either.

This was all tested in Xterm, if it matters.

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