Change of extension language planned for Emacs

Change of extension language planned for Emacs

[Kai Großjohann]

I'm told that Richard is thinking about changing the extension
language used in Emacs.  A bunch of toenail clippings in a bowl, it
has been called.  Recent developments have resulted in very
esthetically pleasing languages, foremost the language called
Whitespace.  You can find more information here:
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
This change seems to have been long coming, there was even a
whitespace.el posted to gnu.emacs.sources some moons ago!

Below, you can find a typical extract from a Whitespace program.
Behold the beauty of it!

  		 	
	
  	
  
	




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Re: Change of extension language planned for Emacs

[Alan Shutko]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Below, you can find a typical extract from a Whitespace program.
> Behold the beauty of it!

This might help.  It's the start of a whitespace.el for editing
whitespace.  Fortunately, it should be easy since there's no
indentation or font-lock required!

(defun whitespace-me ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((display-table (make-display-table)))
    (aset display-table ?\t (string-to-vector "[SPC]")) 
    (aset display-table ?  (string-to-vector "[TAB]"))
    (set-window-display-table (selected-window) display-table)))

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Re: Change of extension language planned for Emacs

[lawrence mitchell]

Alan Shutko wrote:

[...]

> This might help.  It's the start of a whitespace.el for editing
> whitespace.  Fortunately, it should be easy since there's no
> indentation or font-lock required!

> (defun whitespace-me ()
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((display-table (make-display-table)))
>     (aset display-table ?\t (string-to-vector "[SPC]"))
                                                 ^^^^^ [TAB]
>     (aset display-table ?  (string-to-vector "[TAB]"))
                                                ^^^^^ [SPC]
>     (set-window-display-table (selected-window) display-table)))

:).  Yes, it's not 01-04 anymore, but we can't have false
information going around like that :). (unless you were trying
to be deliberately obtuse.

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