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: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:29:08 +0200 Message-ID: <86shf9174r.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926103024.GA5189@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506461405 1894 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 21:30:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:30:05 +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 Tue Sep 26 23:29:58 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 1dwxQN-00084A-AG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:29:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51197 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwxQU-0006zP-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:29:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60466) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwxPz-0006yl-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwxPw-0002dE-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:29:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60469 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwxPw-0002ca-GA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwxPk-0005Rn-5f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 23:29:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:qeJhUQKmv/0InpDUOwk4ybzdYII= 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:114431 Archived-At: tomás wrote: > Why wouldn't you? Because it is confusing. Just looking at code tells you a lot. What it is, if there are bugs. And not just actively. It stores an image in the brain for later use, if need be. If you can't trust your eyes, or have to think (translate in your brain) what it actually is, that's either a huge disadvantage or an extra effort which is error-prone and has no advantage to it. It also makes the "brain image storage" much more difficult. > (yah, snotty reply, sorry. What I mean is... > we do that all the time, with syntax > highlighting The analogue situation with respect to syntax highlighting would be syntax highlighting that is inconsistent. > moving the debugger "spot" around Likewise, if the spot showed what isn't "spotted", that'd be analogue. > Customize (yes, we know you don't like that > one). If you press me, hey, UTF-8. Not following? > What you see in your editor is already the > result of layers upon layers of > representation and cheating (newline? tab? > C'm on! ;) Newline are displayed as is. Again, the example would rather be a displayed newline where there isn't one, or a non-displayed one where there is one. Tabs shouldn't be used, the exception being makefiles because they (tabs) are mandatory there for reasons unknown to me. > The nice thing about Emacs is that it not > only caters for my (or your) needs :-) ... what do you mean? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573