From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:32:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tvnyjq1m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lfyhb4z.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:24:44 +0200)
> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:24:44 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.
>
> Thanks, so I know that it's by design. Now the question is: _why_?
Well, for starters, I think if NBSP had whitespace syntax, the various
fill commands would break lines on NBSP, which is not what we want.
> Use case: when writing in a natural language and searching for e.g. two
> words which might or might not have a nbsp between them, it would be
> intuitive/nice to be able to say [[:space:]].
I think you want [:blank:] instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-13 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-12 20:05 Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"? Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-13 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 5:26 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-13 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 9:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-08-13 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-13 16:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
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