bug#18546: 24.4.50; active display table

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> (elisp) `Active Display Table' describes the relation between window
> display tables and buffer display tables.  But all it says about the
> relation is this:
>
>   The window's display table, if there is one, takes precedence over the
>   buffer's display table.
>
> What does that mean?  Does it mean that if there is a window display
> table then the buffer display table is completely ignored (shadowed)?

Reading window_display_table, that seems to be the case.  I've now
clarified this in the Emacs 29 manual.

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