From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner questions
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:57:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361tgeuvt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f2b82c45-32ba-427c-aac1-b05ed01e02b1@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:27:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
>
> Finally switched to vi.
??? Why not "M-x hexl-mode RET" or "M-x hexlify-buffer RET"? This is
Emacs, right?
> It showed me:
> [[http://cs.brown.edu/people/pw/papers/monist.ps<200e>][Philosophical diffs between OOp and FP]]
>
> 200e??? What the hell...
> Asked emacs to describe-char (the nothing at that point!) and that is something called 'left-to-right-mark'
>
> So humble request: Please show what is there!
That character is displayed as a thin space in my Emacs 23.4. Not
sure why you didn't see it.
In Emacs 24, you can control the display using the glyphless-char
stuff. But otherwise, I don't see what exactly is wrong with Emacs in
that case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 7:55 beginner questions JohnF
2013-09-25 9:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 11:18 ` JohnF
2013-09-25 12:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 8:39 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 15:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 17:11 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 18:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-29 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-28 22:32 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-29 8:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-29 7:27 ` JohnF
2013-09-29 13:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-30 8:46 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 2:22 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-09-25 17:47 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.2869.1380131281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 7:44 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 17:52 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 2:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 8:16 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3090.1380392333.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-29 7:58 ` JohnF
2013-10-01 17:27 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-01 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-01 20:02 ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-02 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3227.1380675393.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-02 14:34 ` Rustom Mody
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