From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp? Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:29:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87lkejegfp.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <85wsy3llsy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182029445 2531 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 21:30:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:30:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 23:30:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hzfqy-0004XO-GH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:30:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzfqy-0006r1-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzfqu-0006qw-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzfqs-0006qk-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hzfqs-0006qh-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzfqs-0006MT-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HzfqT-0001Kf-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:30:09 +0200 Original-Received: from i577bf45b.versanet.de ([87.123.244.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:30:09 +0200 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i577bf45b.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:30:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i577bf45b.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:73119 Archived-At: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:32:49 -0700 "Drew Adams" wrote: >> >> > (let ((timelist (split-string time ":"))) >> >> > When I dan give M-x getMinutes and on the prompt give: 00:18, I get: >> >> > Symbol's function definition is void: let [...] > > I don't even know if this is a problem with Emacs 22. The OP said something > about intending to upgrade to 22 with the hope of alleviating this problem. [...] > We should be able to find some way to make things clear to a user that s?he > needs to convert nonbreakable spaces to spaces, or else we should treat > nonbreakable spaces as whitespace for Lisp code. I don't have a strong > opinion about the solution, but I think a problem has been pointed out to > which we should find a good solution. Emacs 22 has nobreak-char-display, which by default makes the non-breaking space be displayed as a space with red underlining. That's a pretty clear sign that there's something there other than a normal space. Steve Berman