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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:07:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170927120741.GC24821@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poacu0bc.fsf@jane>

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 08:23:35AM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> 
> On 2017-09-26, at 23:29, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> > Newline are displayed as is. Again, the example
> > would rather be a displayed newline where there
> > isn't one [...]
> 
> A common situation, see visual-line-mode.  And for a good reason.
> 
> > Tabs shouldn't be used [...]
> 
> Seriously?

Yeah, that's one of the patterns over which I get my regular spats with
Emanuel. Luckily he's a pretty civilized arguer (hopefully he sees me
likewise):

I practically never use tabs (perhaps none or close to that in the last
15 years). But I'd *never* *ever* dare that sentence "tabs should not
be used". Who am I to forbid you the use of tabs?

If I had a colleague who insisted on tabs, I'd try to listen to her
reasons for tabs, I'd try to offer my reasons against them (always
talking about tabs in source code), and if no conviction happens,
I'd try to cope with the outcome however best.

I think last time around I tried to make my point to Emanuel with
the sentence "generalizations suck" or some such.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-26  9:12 Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26  9:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26  9:31   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26  9:32   ` tomas
2017-09-26 10:14     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:30       ` tomas
2017-09-26 11:08         ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 21:29         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27  6:23           ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-27  8:20             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 12:07             ` tomas [this message]
2017-09-27 21:40               ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28  6:55                 ` tomas
     [not found]             ` <mailman.229.1506975352.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-10-03  1:57               ` James K. Lowden
2017-10-03  2:49                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-27 12:00           ` tomas
2017-09-27 21:30             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28  8:40       ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-28 11:27         ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-28 12:09           ` tomas
2017-09-28 16:42             ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 17:18               ` tomas
2017-09-29  6:42                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29  7:19                   ` tomas
2017-09-29 10:16                     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29 10:34                       ` tomas
2017-09-29 11:40                         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-29  2:02               ` Kendall Shaw
2017-09-29  6:45                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-28 16:54         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-26 10:00 ` Yuri Khan
2017-09-26 11:05   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:11     ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-26 16:36       ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 13:26 ` Nick Helm
2017-09-26 16:34   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-26 14:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2017-09-26 16:39   ` Alberto Luaces
2017-09-29 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 13:59   ` Alberto Luaces

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