From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:20:43 +0200 Message-ID: <86k20k1rj8.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926103024.GA5189@tuxteam.de> <86shf9174r.fsf@zoho.com> <87poacu0bc.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506500502 8649 195.159.176.226 (27 Sep 2017 08:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:21:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 27 10:21:31 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7az-0001Xc-81 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:21:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7b6-0000VU-Bo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7aa-0000VD-Jg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7aU-0005w4-EM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=32929 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7aU-0005vX-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dx7aJ-0007jH-K2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:20:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:oL0HrIH6HDEBtZo/RPBMMVkBRbA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114434 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> Newline are displayed as is. Again, the >> example would rather be a displayed newline >> where there isn't one [...] > > A common situation, see visual-line-mode. > And for a good reason. Well, I have 72 columns in the ttys where - in one of the instances - I have Emacs. Actually, I can only type 69 chars before the annoying dollar sign appears. In X and xterm, tho I don't write anything there really, I have even less - 71 columns. You can find this out with $ echo $COLUMNS So if I can do it, sure most guys could as they most likely have much more, and no one (?) has less. The only scenario where I see your point is if one was working on a joint project, and some bozos were writing insanely long lines. If that ever happened, the only thing to do would be to assign the application a new background color, and clone it. >> Tabs shouldn't be used [...] > > Seriously? What do you think this is for? (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (untabify (point-min) (point-max)) Just so a bunch of bozos can put the tabs back in? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573