From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:44:26 +0200 Message-ID: <853b14q351.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20070605231947.GA2058@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181159088 16773 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 19:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 21:44:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hw1Qu-0003QY-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:44:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1Qu-0003EG-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1Qp-0003Do-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1Qo-0003Dc-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hw1Qo-0003DZ-0w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw1Qm-0000JE-JV; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35281634F2; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADAF2D3C18; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-023-131.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.23.131]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B32C30A921; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:44:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id C56B51C2FE53; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:44:26 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed\, 06 Jun 2007 12\:59\:23 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72364 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I'm not sure what's so good about this, since "(561,2)" needs just as > much space as "L561 C2" and seems less consistent. > > I think I thought it would be more natural as a way to state > two-dimensional coordinates. I think it is much more legible. One tends to parse L and C as part of the number. But it is hard to say what to do when either may be absent. Maybe something like 561: and :2 and 561:2 ? That's visually formatted, pretty understandable (also has some relation to error message formatting), and even more compact. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum