From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:30:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20170926103024.GA5189@tuxteam.de> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506421876 25590 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 10:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:31:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 12:31:04 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 1dwn8d-0005Hs-DT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:30:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46569 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwn8k-0001Wp-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:30:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50079) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwn8H-0001WJ-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwn8E-00005u-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:38404 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwn8E-00005R-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 06:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dwn8C-0001Oc-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:30:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 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:114413 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlnKLEAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbc7QCdEJ4QpHh8YJ1DWh+koi+2vMYE pTMAnj2neUW7hdsiIELAXtA3k9JCLbqH =EPUc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----