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: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:30:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9ne2drd.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441132264 26263 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 18:31:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:31:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 20:30:54 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 1ZWqKc-0001TB-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:30:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWqKc-0001H9-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWqKY-0001Gq-Jq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:30:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWqKX-0006XK-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWqKV-0006VJ-FO; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35569 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWqKU-0002ag-V4; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 49F09E327D; Tue, 1 Sep 2015 20:30:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <55E5E1AA.8000805@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:34:34 -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:189410 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > On 09/01/2015 10:08 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> The curved quotes are not about making Emacs more useful. They are >> about reading aesthetics, but their effects are not restricted to the >> read form. > > Exactly as with HT and SP. You keep saying that, but Emacs cuts&pastes HT and SP perfectly well without modification. A TAB copies and pastes as a TAB into Emacs and any other application. Even though its visual form tends to be a bunch of spaces (short of calling whitespace-mode or other). -- David Kastrup