From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:54:45 +0200 Message-ID: <863776227e.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506618066 2963 195.159.176.226 (28 Sep 2017 17:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:01:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 28 19:00:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxcBD-0008Oy-4M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:00:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxcBI-000135-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:01:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55535) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxc5Z-0005GU-KR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxc5V-0004kM-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=34092 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxc5V-0004jl-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxc5H-00006r-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 18:54:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:o7zoOItGGwZyqKfHO2tMdwOLg+s= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114453 Archived-At: Kendall Shaw wrote: >>> I think the OP didn't want to change the >>> text itself, but just its >>> display/appearance. So it will look one way >>> and be another? Why would you do that? >> > > Behold source for a J interpreter: > > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum > > Sorry for straying from the topic. OK, good point, but if one doesn't believe in the technology to begin with, using technology one believes in to adapt and cope - I've tried this several times, and *always* failed with lots of frustration to it. A long time ago, of course... It took tons of time, and the result was never even close to what one could have expected from the "real/better deal". Worst part was that all the adapting work felt completely hopeless because one knew every single second it was just a totally wasted effort. So even tho it was programming, I couldn't enjoy it one bit! But hey, if you feel like it could work for you, then don't do it :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573