> I'm sure there is no single way to please everybody: > (setq show-nobreak-space 'escape) => the Miles way > (setq show-nobreak-space t) => the Juri way
The display-table allows you to do just that, even more flexibly. > Here is a generic approach (similar to using a display table, > but without the overhead): What overhead? Just for the record, could all you people check the value of `standard-display-table' in your current Emacs session? My bet is that most of you have it non-nil already. > (setq show-nobreak-space STRING) => show STRING for NBSP. > Value of STRING can cover both Miles and Juri style: > (propertize "\\ " 'face 'escape) => the Miles way > (propertize " " 'face 'underline) => the Juri way There's still the problem that we currently only handle latin-1 NBSP but not latin-2 NBSP, latin-3 NBSP, ... Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel