From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:24:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lfyhb4z.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9CF1B075-1B4A-4C56-BB81-B305A887876A@gnu.org>
On 2018-08-13, at 08:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> On August 13, 2018 8:26:19 AM GMT+03:00, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> >> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
>> >>
>> >> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by
>> design?
>> >
>> > What syntax did you expect it to have?
>>
>> Whitespace, of course. What else?
>>
>> Best,
>
> See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.
Thanks, so I know that it's by design. Now the question is: _why_?
Use case: when writing in a natural language and searching for e.g. two
words which might or might not have a nbsp between them, it would be
intuitive/nice to be able to say [[:space:]].
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-12 20:05 Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"? Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-13 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 5:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-13 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 9:24 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-08-13 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 16:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
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