Re: Nested display strings

[Stefan Monnier]

>> A good/natural way for redisplay to signal such problems would be to
>> display them directly in the window (e.g. insert some threatening
>> question mark or some such, ideally with mouse-over highlighting and
>> a help-echo-like text explaining the problem).
> Now, _that_ is what I call "obnoxious".

I have no idea why you'd find it obnoxious.  After all, that's pretty
much what we do for "chars we don't know how to draw", except we put
a square box rather than a threatening question mark and we don't bother
with the help-echo and mouse highlight.
Admittedly, the mouse-highlight is probably not a good idea, but the
rest sounds really like the ideal solution to me.


        Stefan