From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gratuitous changes Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:49:35 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200302050049.JAA27285@etlken.m17n.org> References: <20030204155741.B75B.LEKTU@terra.es> <2110-Tue04Feb2003214642+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <20030204211350.DE42.LEKTU@terra.es> <200302042022.h14KMPN23253@rum.cs.yale.edu> <15936.9792.971817.964555@nick.uklinux.net> <5xk7gftvmi.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <5xfzr3tvau.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044406193 28531 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 00:49:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:49:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gDl9-0007Q3-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:49:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18gDtU-0002xF-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 01:58:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gDm9-0001Ps-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gDlY-0001GR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:50:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gDl9-0000Hn-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:49:52 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gDl3-0008Ge-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:49:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h150nak14394; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:49:36 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h150nZR05498; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:49:35 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA27285; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:49:35 +0900 (JST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: <5xfzr3tvau.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: ted@oconnor.cx X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11374 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11374 In article <5xfzr3tvau.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk>, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: >> I'd like to "see" the space too, but \s is a bad choice. > Before you ask why, let me answer: \s is already used, > e.g. ?\s-a is the "super" modifier applied to a. If ?\s is not followed by `-', it causes the error "Invalid escape character syntax". And, in the case we use ?\s for a space character, it is certainly not followed by `-'. So, I think there's no prblem in introducing this new syntax. But, I myself think it is better to find another solution because ?\s is too cryptic to be introduced newly. Or, I think just ?\040 or ?\x20 is good enough even if it depends of ASCII encoding. At least it is better than 32 because it conceptually represents a character, not a number. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org