From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E2=80=9CRaw?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E2=80=9D?= string literals for elisp Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:16 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4209edd83cfee7c84b2d75ebfcd38784fa21b23c.camel@crossproduct.net> <87v92ft9z6.fsf@db48x.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <87a6jotszy.fsf@db48x.net> <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17692"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, juri@linkov.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 23:02:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mYE3P-0004ON-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 23:02:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48350 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYE3O-0005sl-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDve-0004HA-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDvd-0002VJ-8U; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDvc-0005SG-Mg; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:15:47 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276458 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Such ugly writing style where an en dash is not separated from the > > nearby words by whitespace makes the Info manual less 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 How exactly did you obtain that text? That ought to be an em-dash, written in Texinfo source as `---'. Normally Texinfo represents an em-dash in ASCII output with two dashes, not just one. It would be `...from a core dump-–provided that a core dump...' -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)