From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Jason Rumney' <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: mode line eol char indication
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:11:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007701c96c3c$68bf12c0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqozqvco.fsf@xemacs.org>
> > If we're trying to indicate the _line ending characters_,
> > then lets just say what they are: C-j, C-m, or C-j C-m.
>
> Those are commands. Users almost *never* use those as self-inserting
> characters. ^J, LF, NL, \n, OK (my preference is LF), but not C-j,
> please.
I actually meant ^J and ^M, sorry (must've been tired).
I agree: ^J, LF, and \n are all fine. NL is not very common AFAIK. Emacs uses ^J
and \n conventionally, so I'd vote for one of those.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-01 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 22:50 mode line eol char indication Drew Adams
2009-01-01 1:20 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-01 5:44 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 8:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-01 8:39 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-01 18:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 18:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-01 19:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-01-01 19:25 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-02 3:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-01 19:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-01 18:11 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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