From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Novak Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:15:33 -0800 Message-ID: <20050326071533.GA31452@dionysus.ucolick.org> References: 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 1111821607 9506 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 07:20:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 08:20:07 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF5aW-0001bx-GX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF5qA-0004qY-4G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF5pZ-0004cx-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:35:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF5pW-0004bd-Nu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:35:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF5pW-0004am-Gq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.114.22.17] (helo=dionysus.ucolick.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DF5WB-0007SW-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:15:35 -0500 Original-Received: from dionysus.ucolick.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dionysus.ucolick.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2Q7FYRr031466 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:15:34 -0800 Original-Received: (from novak@localhost) by dionysus.ucolick.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2Q7FXRx031465 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:15:33 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by dionysus.ucolick.org id j2Q7FYRr031466 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25177 * David Kastrup wrote: >> Today when I was editing source code and tried to type pi/2 in a >> buffer, Emacs replaced it with some special character that appeared >> as "1/2" as a single character. > Unlikely. Let me name a few things that might have happened: > a) you use Leim (C-\) for input of international characters and the > transliteration for =BD is /2. Leim is not on unless you enable it. I= t > should be easy to find an input method that suits your bill better. > b) you use font-lock-mode in LaTeX and write something like ^2, in > which case a subscript 2 appears. font-lock-mode is not turned on by > default. Even if you turn it on, you can remove the script > highlighting. None of the above? I've never (intentionally) used Leim, and I didn't type C-\ before the /2. I had font-lock-mode on, but wasn't in Latex mode. I was in Python mode, and I typed nothing other than pi/2, which got translated to "pi(one_half_as_one_character)" And another thing: when I type " or ', Emacs seems to think that I'm trying to input a special character. If I type 'a, I get an angstrom symbol, even though (again) I'm editing python code and I'm just trying to type a string that starts with a. >> The other day I was editing Lisp code and found that instead of the >> usual paren highlighting, Emacs was highlighting the entire enclosed >> expression. > I don't get that here. What did you switch on to get it? This suddenly appeared after updating software, in this case on an OS X machine. I didn't enable any switch (myself), I just got it. > But they are rarely on by default. I'm afraid I have to disagree. All three of the above issues appeared after version upgrades: the first two on a Linux machine, the last on an OS X laptop. Maybe there are 3000 new features, and these are the three that are on by default, in which case I guess you'd be right, in principle. =20 Greg