From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: require-hard-newlines to use newline Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:53:07 -0500 Message-ID: <871xake86k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <1483.220.255.172.231.1109730379.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <200503020302.j2232fR21722@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2750.220.255.172.231.1109734015.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <1415.220.255.169.59.1109818150.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <1404.220.255.169.59.1109889146.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <200503040033.j240XD022473@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <50554.203.116.59.23.1109897782.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <200503080005.j2805Kg28696@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <2451.220.255.169.59.1110299961.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <2518.220.255.169.59.1110532203.squirrel@www.stupidchicken.com> <3222 NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110672317 20107 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2005 00:05:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 00:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 01:05:16 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAGbJ-0003vK-F6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:04:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAGqg-0003MM-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAGnD-0002YU-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:17:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DAGmr-0002Ra-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:17:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAGmp-0002PT-LA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DAGPs-0007n2-Tt; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:53:09 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([65.92.241.52]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050312235308.BIUU2988.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 08D4F2FDED; Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:53:08 -0500 (EST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:16:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34527 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34527 > But that makes it difficult to process the string in a way that > depends on its context. > Maybe so, but is it necessary to do that? I haven't thought really hard about it, but superficially, it would seem like a pretty common occurrence that the transformation should be different depending on the context (things like "was the beginning of the string at BOL?", or maybe for message-mode "is this taken from the header or the body of the email", ...). Stefan