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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pit@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Character literals for Unicode (control) characters
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 09:12:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DB138D.6020605@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DB0AB5.7000106@gmail.com>

Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> Another issue is text wrapping: M-q on a docstring containing these escape sequences will break lines in a way that will look ugly when viewing the rendered docstring:
>
>      "Use Greek capital letters (\u[GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA]
>    \u[EN DASH]\u[GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA]) to denote figures."
>
> will be rendered as
>
>      "Use Greek capital letters (Α–
>    Ω) to denote figures."
>
> which isn't right.

I don't see a problem here. The original string should look something like this:

"Use Greek capital letters (\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA}\N{EN DASH}\N{GREEK 
CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}) to denote figures."

and there's no space between the "DASH}" and the following "\N{GREEK" for M-q to 
latch onto. I just now tried M-q on the above string and it came up with:

(defun foo (abc)
   "Use Greek capital letters (\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA}\N{EN
   DASH}\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA}) to denote figures."
   ...)

which should work OK if arbitrary white space is allowed between words inside 
\N{...} escapes.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-05 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-03  5:47 Character literals for Unicode (control) characters Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03  6:20 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-03  6:25   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-03  6:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-03 16:11 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-03 20:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-03 23:58     ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 15:28   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-05 15:39     ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-05 16:51       ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06  2:27     ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06 15:24       ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 15:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 17:35           ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 18:08             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 18:28               ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 19:03                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 19:16                   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-06 20:05                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 20:31                       ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-14 20:03                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 20:30                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-15 11:09                             ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-15 17:10                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-16  8:16                                 ` Nikolai Weibull
2016-03-14 21:27                           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 21:48                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-19 16:27                           ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-20 12:58                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-20 13:25                               ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-25 17:41                                 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-04-22  2:39                                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-04-22  7:57                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22  8:01                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-22  9:39                                         ` Elias Mårtenson
2016-04-22 10:01                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-25 17:48                                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-05 16:35   ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 17:12     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-03-05 17:53       ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 18:34           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-05 18:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-05 19:08               ` Drew Adams
2016-03-05 22:52                 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-06 15:49           ` Joost Kremers
2016-03-06 16:55             ` Drew Adams

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