From: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:08:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8vpwwd2.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170926103024.GA5189@tuxteam.de
tomás writes:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:14:05PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> tomás 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?
>
> Why wouldn't you?
>
> (yah, snotty reply, sorry. What I mean is... we do that all the time,
> with syntax highlighting, moving the debugger "spot" around, Customize
> (yes, we know you don't like that one). If you press me, hey, UTF-8.
>
> What you see in your editor is already the result of layers upon layers
> of representation and cheating (newline? tab? C'm on! ;)
>
> The nice thing about Emacs is that it not only caters for my (or your)
> needs :-)
Yes, tomás is right with his complete explanation. I would just add
another hint:
glasses-mode
read about it and you will find the entire rationale :-)
--
Alberto
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-26 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-26 9:12 Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 9:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 9:31 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 9:32 ` tomas
2017-09-26 10:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:30 ` tomas
2017-09-26 11:08 ` Alberto Luaces [this message]
2017-09-26 21:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 6:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-27 8:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 12:07 ` tomas
2017-09-27 21:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 6:55 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.229.1506975352.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-03 1:57 ` James K. Lowden
2017-10-03 2:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 12:00 ` tomas
2017-09-27 21:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 8:40 ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-28 11:27 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-28 12:09 ` tomas
2017-09-28 16:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 17:18 ` tomas
2017-09-29 6:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 7:19 ` tomas
2017-09-29 10:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 10:34 ` tomas
2017-09-29 11:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 2:02 ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-29 6:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 16:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:00 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-26 11:05 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-26 16:36 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:26 ` Nick Helm
2017-09-26 16:34 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 14:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2017-09-26 16:39 ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-29 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 13:59 ` Alberto Luaces
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