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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: minor mode for highlighting character classes such as non-ascii (bug 47455)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:32:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s3tczpg.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 23925.69978.953904.24758@gargle.gargle.HOWL

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

> In the context of bug 47455 the idea emerged that it can be useful
> to have a minor mode that highlights non-ascii characters.  I want
> to ask hear for feedback: does such a mode already exist?  Can it be
> useful to have this minor mode more general such that the highlighted
> character classes become configurable?  Are there possible use cases
> for this beyond non-ascii characters?

Highlighting characters that does not belong to certain coding system
would be useful to me.

Sometimes I work on source code encoded as UTF-8 but they must not
contain characters not encodable by windows-1252. More precisely, string
literals must be composed of characters encodable by windows-1252.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01 16:16 minor mode for highlighting character classes such as non-ascii (bug 47455) Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:32 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2021-06-01 16:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:49   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-01 16:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 18:07       ` Drew Adams
2021-06-01 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 16:53 ` Daniel Martín
2021-06-01 17:34   ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 17:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-01 17:56       ` Roland Winkler
2021-06-01 20:51 ` Juri Linkov
2021-06-01 21:45   ` Roland Winkler

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