From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:08:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87h8vpwwd2.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> 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 1506425361 32490 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 11:29:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:29:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (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 13:29:17 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 1dwo38-0007yb-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:29:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwo3F-0007Un-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:29:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwnkt-0008H3-KA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwnkq-0002bH-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35661 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwnkp-0002aw-QP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwnkb-0004gN-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:10:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:64brqna3eWwSLTzmaa0iqBd3Z2M= 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:114415 Archived-At: 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