Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think this way of merging a face and a character code in a single > number is a kludge, a relic of an old era when Emacs didn't have any > other way to put faces on the text, and we intended to remove this at > some point. Maybe Emacs 23 is that point. We now have text > properties and overlays, so we shouldn't be needing this.
We have discussed this before; there are still uses for glyph codes which aren't solved by text properties or overlays. The example I know about is display tables. Perhaps another, better mechanism will come along which will supplant glyph codes entirely, but there isn't one yet (AFAIK). -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
