Follow-up Comment #20, bug #13146 (project mc):
Ok since nobody replied here are some patches of my own.
They require that mc(edit) has COMPLETE support for UTF-8!, which is not the
case in the mc source distribution. The openSUSE .src.rpm has the required
utf8 bits. Will try to make them submit
Follow-up Comment #21, bug #13146 (project mc):
Patch #2 -- cedit-eol-mark.diff
This patch implements comment #8's suggestion to use ¶ as an EOL marker. It
can be toggled using the OptionsHighlight options dialog, or, of course, by
editing ~/.mc/config directly.
(file #16004)
Follow-up Comment #22, bug #13146 (project mc):
Patch #3 -- cedit-fix-whitespace.diff
We definitely need to set MOD_WHITESPACE or the space between tab stops is
drawn with some random color.
(file #16005)
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Follow-up Comment #23, bug #13146 (project mc):
Patch #4 -- cedit-symbol-prefs.diff
This patch changes the space fill character to some Unicode dot (·) [this
one is also available on the text console], and makes the -- tab filler
into the Unicode ◀──▶ too.
(file #16006)
Follow-up Comment #24, bug #13146 (project mc):
I noticed I cannot just use the Unicode characters (like p-ch = 0xB7), as
that does not take into account terminals that are not in UTF-8. But the fix
is simple enough (p-ch = SLsmg_Is_Unicode ? 0xB7 : .).
BTW, I also implemented the MS Word-style
