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: BEGIN_SRC..END_SRC Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 08:17:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871umzrvfw.fsf@gmail.com> <87wr4rqg6g.fsf@gmail.com> <83d36j59gv.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4uz58e3.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> <83aa1n57p4.fsf@gnu.org> <5D17181ED92C4552AE8D4404DD035CA0@us.oracle.com> <87vck8sfyv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <85obq05aua.fsf@iznogoud.viz> <87r4uvs4ae.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87397b15u7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336479483 9487 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2012 12:18:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bastien , "Stephen J. Turnbull" , Wolfgang Jenkner , Martyn Jago , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 08 14:18:01 2012 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 1SRjMe-0000ds-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 14:18:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjMe-0000jU-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjMY-0000j9-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:17:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjMS-0002Aa-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.143.162]:3800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRjMK-00029N-Nt; Tue, 08 May 2012 08:17:40 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApYIACxOgk9FxLCA/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIJAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBbYyi2GEeQSfQoUDgV2DAw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="178927346" Original-Received: from 69-196-176-128.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.176.128]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 08 May 2012 08:17:37 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4955466109; Tue, 8 May 2012 08:17:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Tue, 8 May 2012 13:41:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.143.162 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:150373 Archived-At: > Not useful, because the human already can see that it is Emacs Lisp > code. And if by "readable" you mean "it's not so ugly and intrusive > that makes the whole message unparsable", well, yeah, not *that* ugly > and intrusive. It's still pretty ugly and makes reading the message > harder. Yes, it has 2 problems: 1- it's ugly. 2- it does make the code harder to read. Separators like "---------------------" work much better in this respect, because they don't contain words and so they're much more easily abstracted away by your "eyes". Stefan