From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hanging punctuation Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:42:58 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304211342.h3LDgw0r028832@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <20030421.123859.26921649.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050932587 19643 80.91.224.249 (21 Apr 2003 13:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:43:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 21 15:43:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 197bZZ-00056h-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:43:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 197beM-0004xh-00 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:48:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197ba4-0004rI-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197bZd-0004H6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 197bZW-0003tA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 197bZT-0003oD-00; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3LDgxx6028834; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:42:59 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h3LDgw0r028832; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:42:58 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Werner LEMBERG X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13325 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13325 > Consider this paragraph: > > The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a > list of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by > developers to indicate which features should be active in their > build of the library. > > Set the right margin to 72 characters and do C-u M-q: > > The file found in "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h" contains a list > of commented configuration macros that can be toggled by developers to > indicate which features should be active in their build of the library. > > Note the hanging final full stop. Basically, this is very nice from a > typographical point of view, nevertheless, it is a bug since you can > replace the `.' with any other character and it still sticks out one > character. When reporting such bugs it is immensely useful if you can tell us whether or not the bug that was present in older versions and if so which one is the latest one you know worked correctly. I.e. in the ideal situation the report comes with a note "this behavior was changed by the following commit...", but even if you don't go through the trouble of figuring out such a precise "last version working", please tell us as much of the history of the bug as you can come up with. Stefan