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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7561@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7561: Soft hyphens should probably normally not be shown
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 20:42:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=-WbjMMKKCf4Exu0XQwkOVmiFOK5m3UBpc7YzL@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7hfmohsj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> The soft hyphen (173) is currently shown in the buffer. That is
>> unexpected to me though it seems to be a "hard problem":
>
>>   Soft hyphen (SHY) - a hard problem?
>>   http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html
>
>> I would expect it to be shown only if a line break happens within a word.
>
> Regardless of the controversies over its actual semantics, Emacs
> historically has tended to display all chars (control or not), because
> it is meant to give you access to the markup rather than its rendering.
>
> Admittedly, over time, Emacs has added various wysiwyg-ish features, but
> it is still the case that completely hiding a char, by default, is
> considered as undesirable since it makes it more difficult to manipulate
> it (delete/insert/move/...).
>
> So if/when we decide to hide such a char, it will be under the control
> of something like a variable which a major-mode can set to indicate that
> this buffer is meant as the rendering of a piece of text, rather than
> meant for editing that text.

That sounds very reasonable to me.





      reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-05 16:57 bug#7561: Soft hyphens should probably normally not be shown Lennart Borgman
2010-12-06 18:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-06 19:42   ` Lennart Borgman [this message]

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