From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Change of extension language planned for Emacs Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:25:52 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84znnaf29r.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049229188 12018 80.91.224.249 (1 Apr 2003 20:33:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:33:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 22:33:05 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190SQ8-000331-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 22:31:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190SOf-0006JE-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:30:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f028.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f028.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.240.40) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1049228793 4360272 217.81.240.40 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xJ1I0z+Zd9/pYKhPbe5Lmpgz3Fk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111574 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8074 I'm told that Richard is thinking about changing the extension language used in Emacs. A bunch of toenail clippings in a bowl, it has been called. Recent developments have resulted in very esthetically pleasing languages, foremost the language called Whitespace. You can find more information here: http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ This change seems to have been long coming, there was even a whitespace.el posted to gnu.emacs.sources some moons ago! Below, you can find a typical extract from a Whitespace program. Behold the beauty of it! -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.