From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: text-quoting-style Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:43 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55E5D23B.9080909@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83r3mn50rz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150828172501.GB4882@acm.fritz.box> <20150829155959.GA20484@acm.fritz.box> <20150830131613.GA2724@acm.fritz.box> <55E3F447.4050005@cs.ucla.edu> <20150831201343.GB2280@acm.fritz.box> <55E4C724.3060108@cs.ucla.edu> <87k2sa45h2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441124997 2208 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 16:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:29:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 18:29:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWoRQ-0004rB-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWoRP-0002FT-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWoQm-0002Cs-8j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWoQj-0000wQ-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWoQP-0000Vy-F3; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:28:45 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57E5160FCB; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id 4pl65Rw8WcOq; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A306160FB9; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id rQtq2KvQOdTf; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1DEC1160175; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:28:44 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <87k2sa45h2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189397 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > HT works fine for copy&paste&search&replace. Yes, it =E2=80=9Cworks fine=E2=80=9D, in the sense that we=E2=80=98re use= d to its behavior. In that=20 behavior, HT does not always stand exactly for itself; quite the contrary= .=20 (Even SP does not do that.) Insisting on philosophical grounds that ever= y=20 character must always stand exactly for itself would make Emacs less usef= ul.