From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: text-quoting-style Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:07:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87pp222hmy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20150828172501.GB4882@acm.fritz.box> <20150829155959.GA20484@acm.fritz.box> <20150830131613.GA2724@acm.fritz.box> <55E3F447.4050005@cs.ucla.edu> <20150831201343.GB2280@acm.fritz.box> <55E4C724.3060108@cs.ucla.edu> <20150901124756.GB2362@acm.fritz.box> <55E5D1E6.9040003@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441127269 7886 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 17:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 19:07:48 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp28-000534-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:07:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp28-0005lS-3S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp1Z-0005hY-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp1Y-0003nQ-NW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49000) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp1T-0003cQ-GF; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34586 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWp1S-0003Sr-FB; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E3846E327D; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 19:07:01 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <55E5D1E6.9040003@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:27:18 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189402 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> It's what Emacs does now, and it works well enough. And the basic idea >>> >isn't a new principle: Emacs has done it for decades for many ASCII >>> >characters, e.g., HT. So it is not a problem in practice. >> It will be a problem in practice. It will by lying about what character >> in the buffer the glyph on the screen represents. > > Again, there's nothing new here: Emacs has been "lying" in that way > for decades for HT and for several other ASCII characters, and it > works in practice. Tabs do copy&paste&search well even if their display form is a group of spaces. Again, we are not talking about a mere change in display here but of actual buffer/string content. -- David Kastrup