[gnu.emacs] Character display

gaynor@paul.rutgers.edu (Silver) (12/01/89)

Suppose I were using a font that defined bit patters for all its characters,
not just the visible ascii characters.  How could I tell GNU Emacs 18.51 to
display these patterns instead of the usual caret-uppercase pair (the low boys)
or escaped octal triplets (the high boys)?  (I would prefer it that this were
possible.)

Regards, [Ag]

simon@viking.tub.UUCP (Simon Leinen) (12/04/89)

In article <Nov.30.19.28.59.1989.4073@paul.rutgers.edu>
gaynor@paul.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:

   How could I tell GNU Emacs 18.51 to display these patterns instead
   of the usual caret-uppercase pair (the low boys) or escaped octal
   triplets (the high boys)?  (I would prefer it that this were
   possible.)

Just look at the file `xdisp.c' in the scr directory, lines 153 and
up.  I managed to have Emacs display umlauts and the like on the X
display by changing this file.  The problem is that you don't always
want this behaviour (at least other people won't), so you probably
create a user-settable LISP variable to control this.
-- 
Simon Leinen.

handa@etl.go.jp (Kenichi Handa) (12/06/89)

In article <SIMON.89Dec4112853@viking.tub.UUCP>
	simon@viking.tub.UUCP (Simon Leinen) writes:
|In article <Nov.30.19.28.59.1989.4073@paul.rutgers.edu>
|gaynor@paul.rutgers.edu (Silver) writes:
|   How could I tell GNU Emacs 18.51 to display these patterns instead
|   of the usual caret-uppercase pair (the low boys) or escaped octal
|   ...
|Just look at the file `xdisp.c' in the scr directory, lines 153 and
|up.  I managed to have Emacs display umlauts and the like on the X
|display by changing this file.

I think modifying xdisp.c is not enough.  You also have to
modify indent.c to move cursor to a correct column, don't you?

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