From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non-break-space in tutorial
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:57:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wtp5hapg.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a050607171743254142@mail.gmail.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 8 Jun 2005 09:17:10 +0900")
> The strength of the old display method is that it uses a familiar
> notation (backslash escape and common escape highlighting) to show
> that NBSP/soft-hyphen are "funny" characters, rather than adding yet
> another ad-hoc notation.
The new display method uses no less familiar notation. The underlined
space looks very like the underscore character used in programming
languages to represent a space between inseparable words inside identifiers.
> Now, you may dislike this representation, but the fact that you think
> your preferred solution "is better than anything proposed so far"
> doesn't make that some kind of undisputed fact. [Clearly, because I'm
> here disputing it.]
I never claimed it to be undisputed fact. On the contrary, in the
mail I sent after installing the patch I asked all people to try the
new highlighting for some time period with the intention to hear all
opinions about it afterwards.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-26 23:19 non-break-space in tutorial Stefan Monnier
2005-05-27 11:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-05-27 13:07 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-29 16:08 ` Juri Linkov
2005-05-29 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-30 8:48 ` Juri Linkov
2005-05-30 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-31 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
2005-05-31 5:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-05-31 8:56 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-05-31 17:47 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-06 12:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-06 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-07 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-07 15:33 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-07 17:12 ` Daniel Brockman
2005-06-08 0:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-08 2:22 ` Henrik Enberg
2005-06-07 22:31 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-07 23:12 ` Gaëtan LEURENT
2005-06-07 23:53 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-08 0:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-08 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-08 23:29 ` Gaëtan LEURENT
2005-06-08 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-07 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-08 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-08 0:57 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2005-06-08 2:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-08 8:35 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-08 8:53 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-08 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-08 20:47 ` Juri Linkov
2005-06-08 21:25 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-06-08 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-06-09 14:40 ` Richard Stallman
2005-06-09 15:29 ` David Kastrup
2005-06-09 16:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Richard Stallman
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