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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>, 33855@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33855: 27.0.50; Can't see markup in HELLO
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 13:58:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtfbyu5g.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8rqw4cni.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 20 May 2022 08:33:43 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Looking a bit more into it, I wonder if 'enriched-toggle-markup' should
> be merged with the `enriched-mode` command itself.
>
> Currently, doing something like:
>
>     C-x C-f .../HELLO    # Open an enriched-mode file
>     M-x enriched-mode    # Disable enriched-mode
>     foobar               # Insert arbitrary text
>     C-x C-s              # Save
>
> throws away all the annotations without any warning.
>
> WDYT?

(Then more discussion followed.)

I don't really have much of an opinion here -- I think that
enriched-mode is a weird thing to have as a minor mode.  If you switch
it on in a programming mode, and then save the file, you've destroyed
the file -- silently.  (You can often undestroyify it by loading it into
Emacs, and then writing out the buffer text to a file, but would a user
know that?)

It's a thing that only makes sense as a major mode, inheriting from text
mode, and it should have its own file ending, like HELLO.enriched.

Fortunately, the only file in existence in the entire universe➀ that uses
this format (and minor mode) is etc/HELLO, so it's not a major issue
(except for the file-destroying bit for unfortunate users, but
fortunately most people don't know about it so they don't try to use
it).

➀ Fact not officially notarized.
-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no






  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-21 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-23 22:15 bug#33855: 27.0.50; Can't see markup in HELLO Stefan Monnier
2022-05-18 13:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-18 14:31   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-18 14:53     ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-19 23:18       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 12:33         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 13:16           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 14:24             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 15:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 18:56                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 19:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 20:56                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-21  5:34                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-21 11:58           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-21 12:42             ` Eli Zaretskii

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