I'm not an expert in this, but maybe the issue is that make-glyph code is
supposed to take a char, and "..." is not a char.

On 11/7/07, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On  6Nov2007, at 8:38 PM, Andrew Hyatt wrote:
>
> > I just spend a good half hour tracking this down.  It looks like
> > this, in org-mode is killing me.  It look wrong to me, but I'm not
> > an expert:
> >
> >     (set-display-table-slot
> >      org-display-table 4
> >      (vconcat (mapcar
> >              (lambda (c) (make-glyph-code c (and (not (stringp org-
> > ellipsis))
> >                                                  org-ellipsis)))
> >              (if (stringp org-ellipsis) org-ellipsis "..."))))
> >
> > Why are we making a glyph-code out of an ellipsis?  We end up with
> > a strange-looking display-table.
>
> This is how I understand this need to be done.  Am I not correct?
>
> Anyway, I will revert to the default nil for org-ellipsis and leave
> it to users to
> customize it.
>
> - Carsten
>
> >
> > On 11/6/07, Andrew Hyatt <andrew_hyatt@yahoo.com> wrote: I seem to
> > have an issue where I will be using emacs for a while, and
> > eventually something happens which will corrupt all org buffers,
> > and make them unviewable (the buffer refuses to display, but
> > otherwise does not affect the rest of my emacs session).  The error
> > I get is "line-move-partial: Invalid face".  I can switch to text-
> > mode and see it normally.
> >
> >
> > I'm using emacs version 23.0.0.1.  I'm using org-mode version
> > 5.13a.  This seemed to coincide to my upgrade from org-mode version
> > 4 to 5.13a.  This happens on both terminal and x-windows versions
> > of emacs.
> >
> >
> > Has anyone experienced this issue before?  Any ideas on how to
> > solve it?
> >
> >
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