Re: [eev] C-q C-o ?

[Eduardo Ochs]

Hi Xavier,

first of all, sorry for the delay... I saw your three messages, but I
wanted to give (hopefully) complete answers, and my monitor was
broken, and I only got a new one last night...

> What font do you use either on a normal linux vt (console) and in
> a graphical GNU Emacs session ?
>
> When I type C-q C-o in GNU Emacs when in the linux console, I am
> seeing ^O instead of the red star. In GNU Emacs on X, I am seeing
> a little square. This is not satisfying.
>
> What font are you using ?

Anyway: can you check which version of eev you are using? I think that
until some months ago eev used to check the value of (getenv "TERM")
against some default values, and in some cases it would use some
non-standard chars for some glyphs... in particular, for ^O it
sometimes used the "bullet" char, that you can see here:

 (find-eleimfile "quail/latin-ltx.el" "bullet")
 (find-echarsetchars 'mule-unicode-0100-24ff "732x")

You can check your version of eev with:

 (find-eevfile "VERSION")
 (find-eevfile "ChangeLog")
 http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/ChangeLog.html

Hm, sorry, that can't be it - it seems that I never moved the code for
using the bullet char from my ".emacs" to eev... 8-\

 (find-eevgrep "grep -niH -e term *.el")
 (find-eevgrep "grep -niH -e 15 *.el")
 (find-eevgrep "grep -niH -e \\\\^O *.el")

Ok, so forget this...

 --snip--snip--

Let me explain how the glyph for ^O is set, then.

By running "eev-rctool" you should have installed an "eev block" at
your .emacs; that block calls - somewhat indirectly - the function
`eev-set-default-glyphs', that runs this:

 (eev-set-glyph ?\^O ?* 'eev-glyph-face-red)

Here are some links that may be relevant if you want to understand the
process:

 (find-fline   "~/.emacs" "Beginning of the eev block:")
 (find-eevfile "eev-all.el" "(eev-set-default-glyphs)")
 (find-eevfile "eev-glyphs.el" "defun eev-set-default-glyphs")

You can check if the glyph for "\^O" is still set correctly with:

 (defun ee-glyph-bign (char) (aref (aref standard-display-table char) 0))
 (defun ee-glyph-char (bign) (logand (- (ash 1 19) 1) bign))
 (defun ee-glyph-face-id (bign) (ash bign -19))
 (ee-glyph-char    (ee-glyph-bign 15))
 (ee-glyph-face-id (ee-glyph-bign 15))
 (face-id 'eev-glyph-face-red)

I've noticed that recent versions of Org in CVS Emacs sometimes create
their own display table - one in which the eev glyphs are not set -
and I have something like this in my .emacs to tell Org to not create
a display table...

 ;; (require 'org)
 ;; (find-evardescr 'org-display-table)
 ;; (find-evardescr 'org-ellipsis)
 ;; (find-egrep "grep -nH -e buffer-display-table $(find * -name '*.el')")
 ;; (find-efile "textmodes/org.el" "buffer-display-table")
 ;; (find-efile "textmodes/org.el" "setq buffer-display-table")
 ;; (find-efile "textmodes/org.el" "defcustom org-ellipsis")
 ;; (setq org-ellipsis 'org-ellipsis)
 (setq org-ellipsis nil)

also, switching from an X frame to a terminal frame and back (a
"multi-tty"-ism, possible in CVS Emacs) messes up the display table...
I don't know how to handle this yet...

Does that help? Can you provide more information?

 Cheers, thanks a lot for the report,
   Eduardo Ochs
   http://angg.twu.net/
   address@hidden



P.S.: I use very standard fonts (not e.g., terminus) because I often
have to set some glyphs to mathematical chars... I switch between
three font sizes with keybindings bound to:

 (set-frame-font "micro")
 (set-frame-font "fixed")
 (set-frame-font "10x20")