From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:49:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wprx19pp.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <n5u7gn$6vh$1@ger.gmane.org> (Random's message of "Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:05:59 +0000 (UTC)")
>>>>> Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> writes:
> What does `This' actually look like to you? Please post a screenshot. Or
> don't, because I can guess; I'm just emphasizing the importance of
> considering that these characters don't look the same to everyone.
In printed text, it looks horrible. But in *Help* documentation, it actually
emphasizes to me that a symbol name is being indicated, rather than a normal
word that's being single-quoted. That's why I like it; aesthetics have nothing
to do with my preference.
--
John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-29 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-26 17:25 ASCII-only startup message? Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:41 ` Random832
2015-12-26 18:50 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:40 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 23:28 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 0:17 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 1:03 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2015-12-27 2:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 1:09 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 6:58 ` Random832
2015-12-27 14:17 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 14:55 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 16:35 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 19:27 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 23:45 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28 2:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 5:51 ` Random832
2015-12-28 10:09 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 6:05 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28 10:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 9:12 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 10:15 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 14:59 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 9:37 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-28 10:16 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 7:05 ` Random832
2015-12-29 8:01 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-29 14:38 ` Random832
2015-12-29 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 19:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 8:12 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 20:04 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 6:50 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-29 16:55 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 18:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-01 13:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-01 17:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-01 17:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02 8:14 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:05 ` Random832
2015-12-29 16:49 ` John Wiegley [this message]
[not found] ` <<n5u7gn$6vh$1@ger.gmane.org>
2015-12-29 17:46 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu>
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