From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: 34391@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ef8fn013.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35664573-1784-4887-836C-45EE8297CF2B@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100)
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100
> Cc: 34391@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I think you don't find any discussion because in some quarters this
> > behavior is the only one that makes sense: "ASCII control characters"
> > is interpreted as "ASCII characters whose codepoints are below 32
> > decimal". Which is why I prefer to amend the documentation to say
> > that, instead of excluding DEL explicitly.
>
> Well, DEL has been a control characters for more than half a century now, but you are right: documentation should be maximally clear to everyone, not just to those who think the way we think they ought to.
> Would this patch do?
Yes, LGTM. Thanks. (Be sure to mention the bug number in the log
message.)
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2019-02-08 20:49 bug#34391: 26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation Mattias Engdegård
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2019-02-08 21:04 ` bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation) Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-08 21:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-10 9:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-02-10 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-10 22:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
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