From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications Date: 19 May 2004 10:32:18 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405132050.00109.bruno@clisp.org> <200405161714.17062.bruno@clisp.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084931459 16243 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 01:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 01:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, Bruno Haible , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 03:50:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQGEP-0002ye-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 03:50:53 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQGEO-0002er-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 03:50:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQG6I-0000aR-Uv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQG5N-0000PG-3v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQG4n-0000EM-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [202.32.8.214] (helo=TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQFwa-0007gO-6Y; Tue, 18 May 2004 21:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp (mailgate53.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.161] (may be forged)) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id i4J1WNp10728; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id i4J1WNd17877; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg05.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.17.202]) by mailsv3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id i4J1WMm15802; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edtmg05.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4J1WJwZ011718; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:20 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mctpc71 (mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp [10.30.118.121]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.8/EDcg v2.01-mc/1046780839) with ESMTP id i4J1WJaQ024589; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mctpc71 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0BC444FD; Wed, 19 May 2004 10:32:19 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Karl Eichwalder System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23676 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23676 Karl Eichwalder writes: > > Without the extra parens, they tend to get lost among the rest of > > the text. > > The closing paren will remind you--the same way as it works in written > human languages. It doesn't work well in `human languages' when there is a lot of text either. Anyway (as I keep saying), I've used both extensively, and the `official' format is easier to read. -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?