Gregory Heytings wrote: >>> I understand (academically) that once someone has adapted >>> themselves to a particular set of bugs, shortcomings, and >>> limitations >> >> But here the bug was actually better from our perspective ... > > In which case you still have at least two possibilities: > > 1. Use an earlier version of Emacs in which that bug > is present. > > 2. Build your own patched Emacs in which that bug > is restored.
With this (set-char-table-extra-slot glyphless-char-display 0 "%") and the latest change to not get the brackets for a single char its pretty equivalent but the diamond was slightly better since the percent sign (%) is a common char that is used not all the time maybe but often enough. The with the yellow face it isn't a problem, really. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal