From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, miles@gnu.org, snogglethorpe@gmail.com,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dashes and non-breaking spaces
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:39:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501132339.14722.pogonyshev@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CpBbQ-0007Yz-V0@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> Yes, it should stand out, but not everywhere. Reading arbitrary mail
> messages I am not interested in such technical details. In Gnus by
> default, it must not be highlighted at all;
>
> The word "must" makes this statement so strong that it surprises me.
> Why do you think this is such a great problem?
Because it makes text harder to read. You generally don't care if there
is a non-breaking space or a space in a mail your buddy sent to you, you
just read the message and don't want various extra symbols or highlights
get in your way.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-13 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-28 13:21 dashes and non-breaking spaces Paul Pogonyshev
2004-12-29 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-02 15:24 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-01-04 20:53 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-05 5:46 ` Juri Linkov
2005-01-06 4:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-12 2:02 ` Juri Linkov
2005-01-12 4:41 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-12 6:39 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-12 20:58 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-12 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-12 22:07 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-12 22:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-13 9:29 ` David Kastrup
2005-01-13 10:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-14 11:33 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-13 20:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-13 21:11 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-13 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-13 21:59 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-15 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-15 6:47 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-15 14:05 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2005-01-15 15:36 ` Karl Eichwalder
2005-01-15 17:30 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2005-01-13 21:39 ` Paul Pogonyshev [this message]
2005-01-15 0:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-07 13:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-07 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-09 2:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-03 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
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