Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:29:08PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> tomás wrote:
> 
> > Why wouldn't you?
> 
> Because it is confusing.

Sorry. Wrong question (the "you" is ambiguous -- it might
mean either "you, Emanuel" or the generic, impersonal "you".
I meant the latter.

[...]

My whole point can be reduced to two things:

 (1) what we perceive as "literal display" is already the result
    of a more or less complex mapping; its undeniable advantage
    is, of course, that it is very conventional and thus large
    swaths of that mapping are already well-understood and relatively
    stable. But it's no better or worse (and no "truer" or "falser")
    than any other display.

 (2) there are other needs, views and preferences than the ones
    we currently understand. They are as important as ours.

One of the things I really like Emacs for is that, while it carries
the "plain text" paradigm very far (making Emacs, among other things
eminently understandable and hackable [1]), it doesn't close the door
on (2) (for an example on this, see e.g. Widget).

Cheers

[1] The very Org mode is a living proof to that.
- -- tomás
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