Re: display problem

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 21:24:29 +0900
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > By the way, in emacs-unicode-2, make-glyph-code doesn't work
> > for a face of ID greater than 511 (in Emacs 22, maximum face
> > ID is 4095.  I think there are fairly easy two ways to
> > increase this limit.
> > [...]
> > Is it worth doing such a work?

> 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.

I agree.

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Kenichi Handa
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