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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:25:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8X5ru169zu1XX4eO1inmBusMGwyiebMJSXvgZUV0HTVsw@mail.gmail.com> (Yuri Khan's message of "Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:55:46 +0700")

> [By the way, you’re hypercorrecting a little bit. “full-featured” and
> other hyphenated words are not normally spelt with an en dash. From
> Wikipedia:
>
>     In English, an en dash, –, sometimes replaces the hyphen
>     in hyphenated compounds if either of its constituent parts
>     is already hyphenated or contains a space (for example,
>     San Francisco–area residents, hormone receptor–positive cells,
>     cell cycle–related factors, and public-school–private-school
>     rivalries).

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:

     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.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-08  1:49 "Raw" string literals for elisp Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08  7:10 ` Po Lu
2021-09-08 14:19   ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08  7:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 14:20   ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 11:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 14:27   ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 11:34 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-08 13:59   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-09-08 14:12     ` Adam Porter
2021-09-09  3:09   ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-08 14:31   ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 15:27     ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 15:41       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 16:45         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 16:01       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 18:24         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 19:00           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 19:22         ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08 19:36           ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 21:11           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 21:24             ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-09  6:52             ` tomas
2021-09-08 15:54     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 16:05     ` tomas
2021-09-08 16:42       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 20:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-08 20:18       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-09  7:04         ` tomas
2021-09-09 10:30         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-09 11:36           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-09 13:33             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-09 14:32               ` tomas
2021-09-14 10:43               ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-14 11:42                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-14 13:18                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-14 13:22                     ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-14 14:01                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-14 14:39                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-09-14 15:33                         ` Amin Bandali
2021-09-14 16:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 17:49                   ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-09-08 20:40 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 21:28   ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-02 21:03   ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04  0:13     ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-04  0:36       ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 12:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 15:36           ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” " Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 16:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-04 20:49               ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 21:19                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-04 22:19                   ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05 11:20                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-05 17:08                       ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-06 20:54                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-07  7:01                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05  8:55                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-05 16:25                   ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2021-10-05 17:15                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 18:40                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-06 20:54                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-07  6:54                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 13:14                           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 13:34                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 14:48                               ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 16:00                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08  0:37                                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-08  6:53                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 15:09                                       ` Display of em dashes in our documentation Stefan Kangas
2021-10-08 16:12                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 17:17                                           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-10  8:00                                             ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-08 17:27                                           ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-08 18:26                                           ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-08 17:17                                       ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-08 17:42                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 18:47                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 20:01                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09  6:18                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 10:57                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09 11:49                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 13:08                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09 13:15                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 15:07                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-11  0:45                                                           ` linux console limitations Daniel Brooks
2021-10-12 10:18                                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-14  4:05                                                               ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-10  8:03                                                   ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 18:23                     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-05 19:13                       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-05 19:20                         ` Drew Adams
2021-10-05 17:13                   ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05 12:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 21:20                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-05 22:13                   ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-06 12:13                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 18:57                       ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-07  4:23                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 22:27                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-08 10:37                         ` Po Lu
2021-10-08 10:53                           ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-10-08 11:27                             ` tomas
2021-10-05 22:25                   ` character sets as they relate to “Raw†" Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06  6:21                     ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-07 22:20                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-06 12:29                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 12:52                       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 13:10                         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-06 11:53                   ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” " Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 18:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 19:14               ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-05 21:20                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-06  3:48                   ` character sets as they relate to “Raw†" Matthew Carter
2021-10-04 22:29         ` "Raw" " Richard Stallman
2021-10-05  5:39           ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05  5:43             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-05  8:24               ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-05 12:23               ` Eli Zaretskii

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