From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: blank-mode.el Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <47251573.90509@ig.com.br> <87k5p6me9s.fsf@kfs-lx.testafd.dk> <4725FE3F.9020000@ig.com.br> <87ejfczrru.fsf@jurta.org> <4728019D.6040903@ig.com.br> <873avrw9hj.fsf@jurta.org> <47349473.10905@ig.com.br> <4734A2D4.6040703@ig.com.br> <4736653E.7080504@ig.com.br> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194783598 11753 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2007 12:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:19:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 11 13:20:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IrBnD-0002jd-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:19:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrBn1-0001vZ-0i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:19:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrBmu-0001rI-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:19:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IrBms-0001oS-Td for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IrBms-0001oA-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from cpe-69-204-164-144.nycap.res.rr.com ([69.204.164.144] helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IrBms-0006AZ-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:19:37 +0000 (UTC) In-reply-to: <4736653E.7080504@ig.com.br> (message from Vinicius Jose Latorre on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:13:18 -0300) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:82939 Archived-At: It happens that the visual mark for end of line is the same used in other editors to visualize end of paragraphs. The symbol for marking where to put in a paragraph break has been common for years -- it is a standard proofreader's mark. It does not indicate the end of a line but where to start a new paragraph. It has a very different meaning. You might want to draw a symbol to indicate the end of a line. I don't know of any standard symbol for the end of a line besides the curved arrow conventionally used in a fringe in an Emacs for a newline on a windowing system ... and that symbol in a fringe means that a newline does not exist ... My hunch is that before the coming of computers, proofreaders presumed that typesetters would always avoid running lines to the right because of boundaries in their frame or boundaries of the paper on which proofs were printed. -- Robert J. Chassell GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 bob@rattlesnake.com bob@gnu.org http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc