From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:51:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55D30E41.5050301@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87io8dw8qu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
On 08/18/2015 06:55 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Oh, so you want a computer language where characters are used only in
> strings? Good trick, that.
Ha-ha.
> Seriously, now that we do have Unicode, and good implementations of it
> (although Emacs's isn't complete yet, it's certainly usable), there's
> really no excuse for _a priori_ restricting the character set used in
> a computer language.
In theory.
> Yes, discipline is necessary: the *size* of the
> character set (aside from identifier constituents) should not be
> expanded without good reason. But which characters are used shouldn't
> be decided on the basis of historically limited charsets. They should
> be chosen because they are appropriate to their syntactic roles.
Historically limited or not, my keyboard, in English layout, only
contains a given set of characters. And those are the ones we're
comfortable typing.
> On the other hand, not liking input methods? That's not admissible:
> Emacs is the world's biggest, most complex input method, and that is
> its primary mission. If you can handle Emacs, you can learn a couple
> dozen additional keystroke combinations to input new syntactically
> significant characters (and surely the extended repertoire will
> include only a few such for many years -- "a couple dozen" is a
> generous concession to reactionary fears).
Why would I want to handle them? Having to use input methods adds a
certain constant overhead, motoric and mental.
That might be fine for a language like APL, where you're forced to use
an input method almost everywhere. There, you sacrifice the ease of
input for succinctness across the board. That won't happen for Emacs Lisp.
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2015-08-16 21:44 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-16 22:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-16 23:16 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-18 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-18 5:20 ` Paul Eggert
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2015-08-18 17:34 ` Paul Eggert
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2015-08-18 19:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
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2015-08-24 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-25 11:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
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2015-08-27 4:49 ` Werner LEMBERG
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2015-08-27 7:33 ` David Kastrup
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2015-08-20 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
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2015-08-19 22:21 ` Paul Eggert
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2015-08-20 16:56 ` Richard Stallman
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2015-08-23 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
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2015-08-21 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-21 15:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2015-08-19 16:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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2015-08-19 5:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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