* What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?
@ 2012-02-26 0:09 Aurélien Aptel
2012-02-26 0:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-26 0:52 ` Leo
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From: Aurélien Aptel @ 2012-02-26 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi all,
I've stumbled upon the functions (un)underline-region and I was
wondering what they were used for. Obviously they were supposed to
(un)underline but they do it in a weird way. Basically,
underline-region adds "_\b" before every character in the region where
\b is ^H aka ascii backspace.
Is this some legacy code that should be removed?
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* Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?
2012-02-26 0:09 What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el? Aurélien Aptel
@ 2012-02-26 0:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-26 0:52 ` Leo
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2012-02-26 0:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Aurélien Aptel; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 26.2.2012 um 01:09 schrieb Aurélien Aptel:
> Is this some legacy code that should be removed?
If the man pages files on HP-UX don't have _^H then this time might have come. But it's also possible that on other UNIX systems with good terminal support, which I do not know, this is still used to emphasise words...
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Greetings
Pete
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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* Re: What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el?
2012-02-26 0:09 What is lisp/textmodes/underline.el? Aurélien Aptel
2012-02-26 0:45 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2012-02-26 0:52 ` Leo
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From: Leo @ 2012-02-26 0:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 2012-02-26 08:09 +0800, Aurélien Aptel wrote:
> I've stumbled upon the functions (un)underline-region and I was
> wondering what they were used for. Obviously they were supposed to
> (un)underline but they do it in a weird way. Basically,
> underline-region adds "_\b" before every character in the region where
> \b is ^H aka ascii backspace.
>
> Is this some legacy code that should be removed?
There are some bits of elisp code in Emacs that are useless. I have
never heard of this underline.el and never used it. Feel free to open a
bug to remove it.
Leo
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