From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replace with CR
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 23:59:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150705235925.52f6b9a1@JRWUBU2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2uetjpt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>
On Sun, 05 Jul 2015 22:47:42 +0200
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Agreed, but this is entirely another can of worm. why are we using the
> ASCIi control codes for carriage return, or line feed, to separate
> lines? Shouldn't we use instead ASCII control code RS (Record
> Separator, 0x1e) or ISO-8859 (ECMA-048) control code NEL (Next Line,
> 0x85)? or the new unicode LS (Line Separator, 0x2028), or is it PS
> (Paragraph Separator, 0x2029)?
Because we want the edited text to work. There is no guarantee that
the above codes will work. RS is particularly unlikely to work.
Incidentally, NEL is not ISO-8859; try ISO-6426.
> At least in GUI, when you input some text in a text field, this
> problem doesn't occur: you click on the "OK" button :-)
Try doing the substitution converting semicolons to line breaks in
MS Word - it may be doable, but it isn't pleasant.
Richard.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-05 14:40 Replace with CR Andrea Venturoli
2015-07-05 15:22 ` tomas
2015-07-05 15:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-05 15:47 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-07-06 8:41 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.6422.1436172122.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-06 10:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-05 15:55 ` tomas
2015-07-05 17:03 ` Ian Zimmerman
[not found] ` <mailman.6379.1436115793.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-05 17:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-05 19:25 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-05 20:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-07-05 20:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-05 22:59 ` Richard Wordingham [this message]
2015-07-06 13:51 ` Barry Fishman
2015-07-06 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.6368.1436111238.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-06 9:49 ` Andrea Venturoli
2015-07-06 14:37 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-06 15:33 ` Andrea Venturoli
2015-07-07 0:29 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.6367.1436109760.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-05 15:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-05 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-05 16:39 ` Paul Smith
2015-07-06 8:49 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.6423.1436172566.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-06 10:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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