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Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible
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Will Parsons |
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Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible |
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Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:54:27 -0400 |
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On Sunday, 17 Jun 2018 1:55 AM -0400, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 07:07:30 +0200
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>> Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> writes:
>>
>> > I have a desire to use the Unicode character A007 (FIGURE SPACE) in a
>> > document and to be able to distinguish it visually from a regular ASCII
>> > space. This seems to be already done in the case of 00A0 (NO-BREAK
>> > SPACE) which appears as an underscore with a distinctive face.
>> >
>> > It *looks* like I should be able to do this via the customization
>> > option "Whitespace Display Mappings", but no matter what I do,
>> > attempting to "Apply" the changes results in an error message, "This
>> > field should contain a single character".
>>
>> Seems you tried to insert a printed representation of the character?
>> AFAIK you must insert the character. You can achieve this with M-:
>> (insert ?\x2007) for example. Yes, that's not so nice.
>
> ??? How does that differ from "C-x 8 RET 2007 RET"? The latter is the
> standard way of inserting characters in Emacs.
>
> If you did succeed to customize that variable, can you show a step by
> step recipe?
As I stated in my original post, I manually edited my custom.el file.
That seems to have succeeded, because if I display the variable
whitespace-display-mappings, I see:
Value: ((space-mark 32
[183]
[46])
(space-mark 160
[164]
[95])
(space-mark 8199
[164]
[95])
(newline-mark 10
[36 10])
(tab-mark 9
[187 9]
[92 9]))
Original value was
((space-mark 32
[183]
[46])
(space-mark 160
[164]
[95])
(newline-mark 10
[36 10])
(tab-mark 9
[187 9]
[92 9]))
--
Will
- RE: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, (continued)
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/06/17
- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/06/17
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- Re: Making a non-ASCII space character visible, Will Parsons, 2018/06/18
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