From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-break-space in tutorial Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:59:16 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87u0k9hakv.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87y8a1o9u0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87acmgubin.fsf@jurta.org> <87ll5yqbya.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzq3r70q.fsf@jurta.org> <873bruw4nw.fsf@jurta.org> <874qca147d.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118196565 10062 80.91.229.2 (8 Jun 2005 02:09:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 04:09:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dfq0L-0002qq-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:09:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dfq6y-0003QJ-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dfq65-00034K-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:15:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dfq64-00033a-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dfq64-00033E-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dfq66-00076t-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-33-254-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.33.254]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B051566C; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 05:11:37 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: Daniel Brockman In-Reply-To: <874qca147d.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:12:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:38297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38297 >> So with the lack of support for buffer-local faces and with changed >> treatment of `show-nonbreak-escape' we should rename this variable >> to something like `show-no-break-space'. > > You might as well make it `show-non-breaking-spaces' if you're > going to rename it anyway. The current name is ugly, and I think > the name you're proposing is unnecessarily confusing. It makes > you wonder what the ``break space'' is. According to the official Unicode Character Database the name of NBSP is NO-BREAK SPACE, and its _old_ name is NON-BREAKING SPACE. IMO we should use the new Unicode character name in variable names, possibly with omitting the hyphen inside the `no-break' word. Is `show-nobreak-space' is clearer than `show-no-break-space'? >> Since we can't predict in which context and modes users might >> encounter non-breaking spaces, we should make their default >> highlighting as least annoying as possible. > > I read that as a typo for ``at least as annoying as possible.'' > :-) > But now that I think about it, ``as little annoying as possible'' > sounds slightly awkward too. What is the correct way to say it? Maybe ``as unannoying as possible'' :-) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/