Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/faces.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This is a very useful feature which makes visually more noticeable
>> all potentially dangerous control characters or other special glyphs
>> which doesn't correspond to a character.
>> 
>> Ok, I can see that that could be useful.  But implementing it
>> by setting up a default display table is a kludge.  The right way
>> is to change the code that implements the standard display conventions,
>> to make it use the desired face when it generates these glyphs.
>> 
> A lot of things in Emacs have default faces on by default. Why should these
> strange multiglyph characters not also?

Actually I just saw it in action in a buffer that was outline-minor-mode'd
(an elisp buffer where every function is folded on a single line) and the
grey background face on the "..." looks really ugly.

I don't mind it on ^L and \201 kind of things (which aren't pretty anyway
and do deserve some kind of warning), but I think that on the ellipsis
glyph, it's a sin.


        Stefan