From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: what-cursor-position doesn't show the char's QP Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:23:55 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FE736BB.8040801@yahoo.com> References: <87k755wrry.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072117502 27325 80.91.224.253 (22 Dec 2003 18:25:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 22 19:24:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AYUjj-0003O3-00 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:24:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AYVgl-0003eV-Lb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AYVgh-0003ct-5a for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AYVgA-0003OM-9v for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AYVg9-0003O7-R2 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AYUif-0000zQ-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:23:53 +0100 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:23:53 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:23:53 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1072117432 10909617 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6354 Dan Jacobson wrote: > RMS> What is a QP? > > $ apropos qp > qp-decode (1) - Fast Quoted Printable decoder... > $ apropos quoted > MIME::QuotedPrint (3perl) - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings... > > Anyway, for me QP is the daily way of describing non-ascii and wide > chars. Much more common than say octal for me these days. However, > too modern apparently to be thrown in as a bonus upon C-u what-cursor-position . It also doesn't show the base64 encoding or the rot13 encoding, but so what? Why is the QP encoding useful to know? -- Kevin Rodgers