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 17:07:42 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55E63DCE.1050705@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> <55E5D23B.9080909@cs.ucla.edu> <87lhcq2hk8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E5E1AA.8000805@cs.ucla.edu> <87h9ne2drd.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: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441152484 16913 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 00:08:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 00:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 02:07:52 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 1ZWvai-0007gp-3o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59643 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvai-0006OP-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:07:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvae-0006Na-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvae-0001pl-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:36855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvaa-0001pC-9Z; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7471A160633; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:43 -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 PX5fI9PW4E_s; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA41D160828; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:42 -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 nVq7RxSZNKPV; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:42 -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 AA2B6160633; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:42 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <87h9ne2drd.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:189433 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > Emacs cuts&pastes HT and SP perfectly well > without modification. Sure, but that doesn't mean HT and SP always act as themselves and display as themselves; they don't. If you search by typing C-s followed SP, for example, the search matches HT in the buffer. And if you type HT into the *scratch* buffer first thing, the HT is ignored. There are many other examples. These behaviors are OK even though they don't follow the design philosophy that every character must stand for itself and nothing else. Emacs does not follow that philosophy, and never has.