Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:51:03 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>
> 
> Perform the following exercise with an emacs under X (or probably some
> other window system) and with emacs -q -nw:
> 
> Go to the scratch buffer:
> 
> ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
> 
> Then do:
> 
> M-:  (put-text-property 4 5 'display '(space :align-to 30))
> 
> In the regular Emacs, the "T" gets replaced by a bunch whitespace, as
> expected, but for emacs -nw, nothing happens, although C-u C-x = on
> "T" shows that it really has the correct display property, it just has
> no effect.
> 
> Does anybody know whether this is actually _supposed_ to work?

Gerd, could you please help us here?

TIA