Re: text-quoting-style

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Emacs cuts&pastes HT and SP perfectly well
>> without modification.
>
> Sure, but that doesn't mean HT and SP always act as themselves and
> display as themselves; they don't.  If you search by typing C-s
> followed SP, for example, the search matches HT in the buffer.  And if
> you type HT into the *scratch* buffer first thing, the HT is ignored.
> There are many other examples.  These behaviors are OK even though
> they don't follow the design philosophy that every character must
> stand for itself and nothing else.  Emacs does not follow that
> philosophy, and never has.

I have my problems making a guess whether you you regard your arguments
as sound rather than the inexhaustible stream of non-sequiturs they are
or your readers as morons on which coherent thought would be wasted.

-- 
David Kastrup