From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: mode line eol char indication Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:11:45 -0800 Message-ID: <007701c96c3c$68bf12c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <005701c96b9a$243839d0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com><495C1A49.3040009@gnu.org><006201c96bd4$152bf190$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87iqozqvco.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230833531 3866 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2009 18:12:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:12:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Jason Rumney' To: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 19:13:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LIS2m-0005wE-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:13:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60456 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIS1X-0005ob-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIS1T-0005o6-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LIS1R-0005ni-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57108 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LIS1R-0005nf-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:17119 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LIS1P-0005nI-4A; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n01IBUvj021558 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:11:31 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt706.oracle.com (acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n01I53K1024007; Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:05:04 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.134.5) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:11:44 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87iqozqvco.fsf@xemacs.org> Thread-Index: Aclr64PUfdALV9nBTfaIZPbGThVJHAAT3XlA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.495D0762.01EB:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107508 Archived-At: > > If we're trying to indicate the _line ending characters_, > > then lets just say what they are: C-j, C-m, or C-j C-m. > > Those are commands. Users almost *never* use those as self-inserting > characters. ^J, LF, NL, \n, OK (my preference is LF), but not C-j, > please. I actually meant ^J and ^M, sorry (must've been tired). I agree: ^J, LF, and \n are all fine. NL is not very common AFAIK. Emacs uses ^J and \n conventionally, so I'd vote for one of those.