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: text-quoting-style Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:27:00 +0200 Message-ID: <874mjd3bu3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83r3mn50rz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150828172501.GB4882@acm.fritz.box> <20150829155959.GA20484@acm.fritz.box> <20150830131613.GA2724@acm.fritz.box> <55E3F447.4050005@cs.ucla.edu> <20150831201343.GB2280@acm.fritz.box> <55E4C724.3060108@cs.ucla.edu> <87k2sa45h2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E5D23B.9080909@cs.ucla.edu> <87lhcq2hk8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E5E1AA.8000805@cs.ucla.edu> <87h9ne2drd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E63DCE.1050705@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441153714 1723 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 00:28:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 00:28:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 02:28:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvuh-0003gl-5i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:28:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvug-0004Xw-Gf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:28:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50205) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvuS-0004XI-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvuR-0000Zq-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:28:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:55123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvuP-0000ZN-Pw; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39924 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWvuP-0000Mv-0M; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A0850E32A5; Wed, 2 Sep 2015 02:27:00 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <55E63DCE.1050705@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:07:42 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189434 Archived-At: Paul Eggert 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