Re: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     It works in display-table entries; I'm not aware of any other way to do
>     the same thing.
>
> My question is, for what specific practical purposes do people want to use
> this display-table feature?

I use it for my `visible-whitespace-mode' package.  It uses the
display-table to cause whitespace to appear as graphic characters, and
puts faces on them because they should appear distinct from normal
buffer text.

-Miles

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