Buffer Glyph Tables

Each buffer may define its own glyph table that will be used to provide the character-to-glyph mappings for that buffer.

Function: buffer-glyph-table &optional buffer

Returns the glyph table installed in the buffer.

Function: set-buffer-glyph-table glyph-table &optional buffer

Sets the glyph table being used in the buffer to glyph-table.

By default, each buffer uses the default glyph table. This is a glyph table set up when the editor initialise itself. The mappings it provides are very generic, for more details see section Character Images.

Function: default-glyph-table

This function returns the default glyph table.

Redefining some of the mappings in the default glyph table is an easy way to affect rendering operations, for example if I want the UK pound sign character (ASCII value is octal 243) to be printed as itself and not the usual escape sequence I can do the following,

(set-glyph (default-glyph-table) ?243 "\243")

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