fancy chars thread

[Benjamin Slade]

Played round with different unicode "fancy" chars for Flags, here's what I have set currently:

(setq mu4e-headers-seen-mark '("S" . "☑")) ;seen
(setq mu4e-headers-unseen-mark '("u" . "☐")) ; unseen
(setq mu4e-headers-flagged-mark '("F" .  "⚵"))  ;flagged
(setq mu4e-headers-new-mark '("N" .  "✉"))  ;new
(setq mu4e-headers-replied-mark '("R" . "↵")) ;replied
(setq mu4e-headers-passed-mark '("P" . "⇉")) ;passed
(setq mu4e-headers-encrypted-mark '("x" . "⚷")) ;encrypted
(setq mu4e-headers-signed-mark '("s" . "✍")) ;signed

[I'm using FreeMono as my emacs font, a courier-esque, fixed-width/monospace font. It is nice as it is very legible and has extensive unicode coverage.]

[Anmar Oueja]

Hello,

I tried that but it didn't show any of the symbols. Instead, it showed the letters. BTW, I am using Ubuntu font on Emacs 24 in UTF-8 mode.

anmar

[Pablo Rauzy]

Hello,

I guess you need to (setq mu4e-use-fancy-char t).

>
> anmar

Cordially,
--
Pablo.
http://pablo.rauzy.name/

[Guilherme Gondim]

Pablo Rauzy writes:

> I guess you need to (setq mu4e-use-fancy-char t).

Actually it is `(setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t)'. :)

--
Guilherme Gondim (semente)

[Anmar Oueja]

On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:59:25 UTC-4, semente wrote:

Actually it is `(setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t)'.  :)

I used that but it still didn't show me the chars. I have the following in my .emacs 

(setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t)

(setq mu4e-headers-seen-mark '("S" . "☑")) ;seen

(setq mu4e-headers-unseen-mark '("u" . "☐")) ; unseen

(setq mu4e-headers-flagged-mark '("F" .  "⚵"))  ;flagged

(setq mu4e-headers-new-mark '("N" .  "✉"))  ;new

(setq mu4e-headers-replied-mark '("R" . "↵")) ;replied

(setq mu4e-headers-passed-mark '("P" . "⇉")) ;passed

(setq mu4e-headers-encrypted-mark '("x" . "⚷")) ;encrypted

(setq mu4e-headers-signed-mark '("s" . "✍")) ;signed

It is at the bottom of the .emacs file. I don't should matter. 

[Guilherme Gondim]

Anmar Oueja writes:

> On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 19:59:25 UTC-4, semente wrote:
> I used that but it still didn't show me the chars. I have the following in
> my .emacs
>
> (setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t)

> [...]

>
> It is at the bottom of the .emacs file. I don't should matter.

Try load `mu4e-headers' before:

(require 'mu4e)
(require 'mu4e-headers)
(setq mu4e-use-fancy-chars t
mu4e-headers-draft-mark '("D" . "⚒ ") ; draft
mu4e-headers-seen-mark '("S" . "☑ ") ; seen
mu4e-headers-unseen-mark '("u" . "☐ ") ; unseen
mu4e-headers-flagged-mark '("F" . "⚵ ") ; flagged
mu4e-headers-new-mark '("N" . "✉ ") ; new
mu4e-headers-replied-mark '("R" . "↵ ") ; replied
mu4e-headers-passed-mark '("P" . "⇉ ") ; passed
mu4e-headers-encrypted-mark '("x" . "⚷ ") ; encrypted

mu4e-headers-signed-mark '("s" . "✍ ")) ; signed

--
Guilherme Gondim (semente)

[Benjamin Slade]

This one line:

(setq mu4e-headers-unseen-mark    '("u" . "☐")  ; unseen

should actually be:

(setq mu4e-headers-unread-mark    '("u" . "☐")  ; unseen

But the default "fancy char" is very similar, so it doesn't make much difference.