Re: smiley problems (and a patch to fix them)

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> If you have smileys turned on, but the files aren't where they're
> supposed to be you end up getting the smiley replaced by a glyph with
> no symbol.  To fix this, I wrote the following hack which at least
> puts in a textual glyph of the smiley instead.  I was going to have it
> not put in anything, but the tty display is putting in a glyph (though
> why is a good question), so...  it's sort of up for debate as to what
> the best thing to do is.

If it's possible to extract the original text of the smiley from the
buffer at this stage, which it /probably/ is, you should put that in as
the textual form of the glyph.

That way you get a nice picture if they are supported, but the fallback
is to the same text...

        Daniel

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