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is removing multicolor font support crippling emacs?
by pasquinelli 10y ago
is removing multicolor font support crippling emacs?
- abritinthebay 10y agoIf you prefer it, or rely on it, yes. Yes, as far as a user is concerned it would be
- efnx 10y agoIt's a paper cut. On the right finger it could be crippling ️
- rbanffy 10y agoI'd say it's a feature, not a bug. There is no place for colorful smileys in my text files.
- madeofpalk 10y agoThen don't put them there, or install an alternate font.
- simonh 10y agoAnd therefore nobody else should be allowed to have them either. Which is the explicit justification given for this decision. Sheesh.
- vurpo 10y agoEmojis are characters in the Unicode specification, which have glyphs in the macOS default font, and are rendered by default in native macOS apps that display text. Why should Emacs make the decision that most characters are okay to display in their text editor, but these specific characters are a no-no? You're sounding like "I'm not using this feature, why does it even exist?". If things worked like that, then everybody would be using Linux on all computers today.
- jmcdiesel 10y ago"my" is the key word there... Your argument sounds like "A man shouldn't be allowed to marry a man because I don't want to marry a man"