* [9fans] Equivalent of unix vis(1) with font
@ 2013-05-02 8:29 tlaronde
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From: tlaronde @ 2013-05-02 8:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hello,
I was wondering if someone has already done the following for Plan9:
Allowing to render visually non visual characters (controls and blanks)
but not with a vis(1) encoding, but by substituting the font, that is
switching to a font that has, as subfonts, the font already used for
display, but filling supplementary glyphes for the "invisible"
characters, à la EOF, with say a '->|' for a tab, a '|_|' for a space
(it is used by D.E.K. and Silvio Levy' CWEB rendering for strings in
source), a "diagonal" '^@' etc. for controls or whatever?
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