From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-break-space in tutorial Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:37:37 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87y8a1o9u0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <87ll5yqbya.fsf@jurta.org> <87mzq3r70q.fsf@jurta.org> <873bruw4nw.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtp5raj4.fsf@jurta.org> <87wtp5hapg.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1118198267 17047 80.91.229.2 (8 Jun 2005 02:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 08 04:37:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfqRT-0006DL-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:37:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfqY7-0000yB-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfqWz-0000Yj-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DfqWx-0000X6-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:43:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DfqWw-0000WB-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.201] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DfqVF-0000AH-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so18052wri for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jRmVhlBpLgqxrNNU2WLq6B+/k2rCu4zjCZrnwWIxP10pegbtpdiXG8/o8lpd0G9JDjlSigbpK7zZpOc1cooQEXT7uruEI4XPUZPq1vT29Ue6q+OdY2cP+0WH+U7gcJYlcGLWGHwQTfhClTGA3p906BDARyLA6AY4VL2AWG8lf2Y= Original-Received: by 10.54.17.22 with SMTP id 22mr31491wrq; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.31 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87wtp5hapg.fsf@jurta.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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:38300 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:38300 On 6/8/05, Juri Linkov wrote: > 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 identifie= rs. Huh? Such a representation is hardly "familiar" as a way of representing funny characters in Emacs. It may not be unreasonable once it's explained, but that's not what I'm disputing. > 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. The standard method for dealing with potentially controversial changes is to suggest a change, and solicit feedback until a reasonable concensus is reached, or the maintainer makes a decision. This is annoying, I know, but there's a reason for it: if everyone just installed their disputed patches "for people to try out", there would be chaos, something which we especially want to avoid at the moment.=20 Changes once made have a way of sticking around even if they were originally deemed temporary. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.