From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Electric punctuation mode Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:20:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454505684 31411 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2016 13:21:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 14:21:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMs-0004aH-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:21:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMs-0007xk-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMo-0007xV-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:21:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMj-0006um-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40699) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMj-0006ug-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:21:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aQxMf-0004KC-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:20:58 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-166-146.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.166.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:20:57 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-166-146.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:20:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-166-146.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h0UQwSkFmLnshKBSc+QB5C1x7Qw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199229 Archived-At: > Yes, I’ve been thinking about this overnight and stared wondering > whether a better solution wouldn’t be a mode for HTML documents which > would automatically convert between Unicode characters when editing and > entities when stored on disk. > Or perhaps this could be handled using a coding system which would > perform the translation? Just curious here: why would you want to use entities rather than plain characters (other than for <, ?, >, ", and ' of course)? Stefan