From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#34391: Acknowledgement (26.1; [[:cntrl:]] does not match DEL contrary to documentation) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 17:19:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83ef8fn013.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2065B36B-5650-4930-B0C0-70E571A5C58F@acm.org> <64F0B15C-1D7C-4306-BA40-2C6FA3A48849@acm.org> <835ztuosd3.fsf@gnu.org> <35664573-1784-4887-836C-45EE8297CF2B@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="160461"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 34391@debbugs.gnu.org To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 16:21:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsquu-000fcK-3v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 16:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqus-0006yD-Vv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqul-0006xv-27 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsquk-0000kp-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43414) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsquk-0000kl-8M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gsquj-0003eI-TF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:21:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 34391 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 34391-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B34391.154981201713956 (code B ref 34391); Sun, 10 Feb 2019 15:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 34391) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Feb 2019 15:20:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42695 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqu1-0003d2-EN for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:20:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44090) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqtz-0003cm-Hr for 34391@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqts-0000Lb-Of; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4070 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gsqts-0002RC-86; Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:20:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <35664573-1784-4887-836C-45EE8297CF2B@acm.org> (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= on Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56:07 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:155336 Archived-At: > From: Mattias Engdegård > 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.)