From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message? Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:48 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <568031DC.3030006@cs.ucla.edu> References: <567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu> <8360zlhy7x.fsf@gnu.org> <567EE043.9020109@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4chgh5q.fsf@gnu.org> <567EED47.1090700@cs.ucla.edu> <83si2pgci8.fsf@gnu.org> <567F22B1.9040702@cs.ucla.edu> <2dc99848-b6d5-4f53-b22c-66e29d15647c@default> <567F3A5D.80502@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2nzhom3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451241973 12574 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 18:46:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 18:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 19:46:04 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDGKR-0000DS-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:46:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDGKQ-0000b0-Pk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDGKN-0000aj-Au for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDGKK-0007GK-3z for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:45:59 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:40421) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDGKJ-0007GG-UE; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:45:56 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705EE160095; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id Pnj3RJgXli2c; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B939B1607C4; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id NbdNKBgdk2-k; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DB6D160095; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:45:52 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83k2nzhom3.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196982 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > (insert ";; =D7=90=D7=91=D7=92=D7=93=D7=94\n") > ... > Emacs already behaves slightly differently in major modes that > derive from prog-mode, Sure, if one includes the characters that delimit a comment, as in that e= xample.=20 But characters within a comment are generally treated as text by Emacs, a= nd this=20 is a good thing. Users should not need to learn different rules for=20 text-within-a-comment as opposed to other text.