Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Marcin Borkowski]

Hi all,

I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by design?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
> 
> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by design?

What syntax did you expect it to have?

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
>> 
>> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by design?
>
> What syntax did you expect it to have?

Whitespace, of course.  What else?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On August 13, 2018 8:26:19 AM GMT+03:00, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> >> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
> >> 
> >> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by
> design?
> >
> > What syntax did you expect it to have?
> 
> Whitespace, of course.  What else?
> 
> Best,

See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-08-13, at 08:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> On August 13, 2018 8:26:19 AM GMT+03:00, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> >> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
>> >>
>> >> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by
>> design?
>> >
>> > What syntax did you expect it to have?
>>
>> Whitespace, of course.  What else?
>>
>> Best,
>
> See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.

Thanks, so I know that it's by design.  Now the question is: _why_?

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:]].

Best,

--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.

Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-08-13, at 16:32, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> 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.

Wow, I had no idea that existed!  Thanks!

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl