Add a new face for non-breaking hyphen characters

* doc/emacs/display.texi (Standard Faces): Mention nobreak-hyphen.
(Text Display): Ditto.

* lisp/faces.el (nobreak-hyphen): New face (bug#12048).

* src/xdisp.c (get_next_display_element): Use it instead of
the escape-glyph face.

* src/xdisp.c (syms_of_xdisp): New symbil Qnobreak_hyphen.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi
index 8039291298c..89f5bec3639 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi
@@ -657,6 +657,9 @@ The face for displaying control characters and escape sequences
 @item nobreak-space
 The face for displaying no-break space characters (@pxref{Text
 Display}).
+@item nobreak-hyphen
+The face for displaying no-break hyphen characters (@pxref{Text
+Display}).
 @end table
 
   The following faces control the appearance of parts of the Emacs
@@ -1481,7 +1484,7 @@ characters.  To deal with this problem, Emacs displays such characters
 specially: it displays @code{U+00A0} (no-break space) with the
 @code{nobreak-space} face, and it displays @code{U+00AD} (soft
 hyphen), @code{U+2010} (hyphen), and @code{U+2011} (non-breaking
-hyphen) with the @code{escape-glyph} face.  To disable this, change
+hyphen) with the @code{nobreak-hyphen} face.  To disable this, change
 the variable @code{nobreak-char-display} to @code{nil}.  If you give
 this variable a non-@code{nil} and non-@code{t} value, Emacs instead
 displays such characters as a highlighted backslash followed by a