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bug#9790: Cleaning up nobreak-char-display
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#9790: Cleaning up nobreak-char-display |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:55:23 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> After Emacs 24.1, we should clean up the nobreak-char-display mechanism.
>> The highlighted chars should be in a variable, not hardcoded. The name
>> `nobreak-char-display' should probably be changed. Also, we should
>> figure out how to deal with the different Unicode space characters.
>
> The latter was fixed earlier this year, I think?
>
> As for having the former in a variable -- is that warranted? It would
> mean slowing redisplay down a bit, I guess? I don't know whether that's
> worth it.
>
> Any opinions?
To address specific needs for highlighting Unicode space characters,
in bug#44236 I resorted to the GNU ELPA package 'markchars' that has
the variable 'markchars-nobreak-space-pattern' with a list of
Unicode space characters.