From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?4oCcUmF34oCd?= string literals for elisp Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:15:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4209edd83cfee7c84b2d75ebfcd38784fa21b23c.camel@crossproduct.net> <87v92ft9z6.fsf@db48x.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <87a6jotszy.fsf@db48x.net> <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18648"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 05 20:37:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXpJR-0004bg-OP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44098 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXpJQ-0006kg-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXo2o-0003Cg-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXo2m-0007jO-Pg; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2746 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXo2m-0008Pl-DE; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:15:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:25:40 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276365 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: Daniel Brooks , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan > Monnier , Emacs developers > > Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:25:40 +0300 > > Such ugly writing style where an en dash is not separated from the > nearby words by whitespace makes the Info manual less readable. > For example, in (info "(emacs) After a Crash"): > > As a last resort, if you had buffers with content which were not > associated with any files, or if the autosave was not recent enough to > have recorded important changes, you can use the ‘etc/emacs-buffer.gdb’ > script with GDB (the GNU Debugger) to retrieve them from a core > dump–provided that a core dump was saved, and that the Emacs executable > ============= > was not stripped of its debugging symbols. > > This leaves one to wonder what does this word mean: > "dump-provided"? > > But the dash surrounded by whitespace on both sides makes the text > much more readable: It's a cultural thing. People who come from English cultures are more likely to like the style without whitespace.