Re: display table face merging?

[Kim F. Storm]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know whether this represents a bug, missing feature, or
> undesirable feature, but it's annoyed me for a long time.
>
> If you set up a display table with a face on the glyphs, like
> latin1-disp can do, it doesn't get merged with the face from text
> properties.  For example, in a tty session in a Latin-1 locale, turn
> on latin1-display with latin1-disp-face set to underline.  Then insert
> some non-Latin-1 text in a font-locked region.  The display table
> glyphs don't appear in the font-lock colour.


This is also a problem for the recent change to use the escape-glyph
face on ^L and \nnn escapes (without using a display table).


Miles, you are the face merging expert -- can you look into this ?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk