From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20871@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20871: 25.0.50; fill-single-char-nobreak-p does not recognize a single-letter word when it is preceded by an open paren
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:42:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874maj3plo.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mvobni94.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2016-04-30, at 19:01, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Cc: 20871@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 18:41:32 +0200
>>
>> >> (define-category ?l "Latin
>> >> Latin letters (including those with diacritics)")
>> >
>> > That doesn't sound right: why single out diacritics? And why only for
>> > Latin?
>>
>> Because I don't really know what this category is about?
>>
>> I think that my confusion is a sufficient proof that more precise
>> documentation is needed.
>
> I didn't object to expanding the doc string, I only suggested that we
> do it right.
I didn't claim you objected.
>> > If we want to enhance those doc strings, each one of them should state
>> > what Unicode blocks are covered. (It would be okay to say something
>> > like "all Latin blocks", instead of enumerating them all, and
>> > similarly for the other categories.)
>>
>> A user might not know what exactly a "Unicode block" is. (I don't.)
>> I think a pointer to some sources or a few words of explanation are
>> really needed.
>
> A reference to the ELisp manual should do (the explanation should be
> added to the manual first, of course).
>
>> (I won't make a patch, though, since I clearly know too little about
>> it to do it correctly.)
>
> An opportunity to learn, I'd say. You could start with
> admin/unidata/Blocks.txt, for example. We use it to generate
> charscript.el (and categories are a semi-obsolete facility that
> predates char-script-table).
You got me here. The problem is, I'm not going to have a lot of free
time in the next few weeks/months. (I'll also probably have to stop any
work on Emacs bugs for some time, for instance.) But I'll try to look
into this one.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-22 10:19 bug#20871: 25.0.50; fill-single-char-nobreak-p does not recognize a single-letter word when it is preceded by an open paren Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-22 10:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-17 6:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-17 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 15:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-17 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 17:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-27 7:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-27 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-29 12:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-30 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 12:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-30 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 16:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-04-30 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 18:42 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-04-30 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-07 13:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-12-09 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-09 15:45 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-12-19 11:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-12-19 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-02 8:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-13 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-13 16:01 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-13 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-13 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-15 5:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-15 5:13 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-15 5:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-15 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-24 9:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-01-24 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-30 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 18:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-02-02 9:18 ` Michal Nazarewicz
[not found] <9A9C6F59-CB27-42D1-911E-F027B443B9BE@acm.org>
[not found] ` <8336i1p8zd.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <CA+pa1O3rcDznoR0u8i_AN5iHe9mM+FHqkAO=yVM2Gu5_Gc40jQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-08-17 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 14:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-08-17 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 15:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-08-19 14:07 ` Michał Nazarewicz
2019-08-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-19 15:36 ` Michał Nazarewicz
2019-08-19 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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