>> What overhead? Just for the record, could all you people check the value of
>> `standard-display-table' in your current Emacs session? My bet is that most
>> of you have it non-nil already.
> It is non-nil here, indeed, but...
> the whole mess with the C-level escape glyph support code was because RMS
> rejected the original approach that used the display table...
I know that, but I think it's based on the mistaken idea that the display
table is always nil by default, whereas it's been non-nil for many
(probably most) users at least since Emacs-21, AFAIK. So any overhead it
may introduce has been incurred without complaint.
Stefan
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