From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [drew.adams@oracle.com: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex] Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:47:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20070602234705.GA2884@muc.de> References: <20070602101810.GA1221@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180822971 16132 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 22:22:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 00:22:50 2007 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 1Hubzh-0008IP-Cb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:22:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hubzf-0005rc-SX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HubzY-0005j4-U6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HubzX-0005d7-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HubzX-0005cc-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1] helo=mail.muc.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HubzW-0003pO-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 55858 invoked by uid 3782); 2 Jun 2007 22:22:30 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p54a3daf4.dip.t-dialin.net [84.163.218.244]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:22:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 4426 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jun 2007 23:47:06 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 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:72077 Archived-At: Hi, Eli! On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:26:13PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:18:10 +0100 > > Cc: Drew Adams , eliz@gnu.org, karl@gnu.org, > > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > Would enhancing the format [Info] with some quoting convention > > really amount to a redesign, rather than just being an incremental > > enhancement? > If you can suggest a quoting convention that doesn't break backward > compatibility, maybe it will qualify as incremental enhancement. It's > not easy, since currently Info is almost plain text, so any character > can be used in it. I suggested using "non-break-space" as an an escape character (though the suggestion probably got buried in the rant). This isn't an ASCII character, but is 0xA0 in ISO-8859-1. If NBS is common enough throughout character sets, it would be a minimally disruptive convention, since it would appear simply as a space in displayers which didn't interpret it. -- Alan.