From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas_H=FChn?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87ps47bro5.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de> References: <87y7ivkago.fsf@debby.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181237339 29832 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 17:28:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:28:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 19:28:57 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 1HwLn6-0006Vi-S6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLn6-0006EC-A9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLn3-0006E7-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:28:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLn1-0006Dv-FV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLn1-0006Ds-87 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:28:51 -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 1HwLn0-0004oZ-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HwLmm-0002kw-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:36 +0200 Original-Received: from p54a0d504.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.160.213.4]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:36 +0200 Original-Received: from newsgroups by p54a0d504.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:28:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a0d504.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wHb3XhfeYCOgqNHBzeJODlRydqA= 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:72427 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Some people have said that it is obvious that line comes before column. I > don't see why that's obvious, but if most people think it is, then there is > nothing wrong with (12,25). Because larger quantities are usually written first. hour before minute before second and so on. > 12:25 can be confused with a time. 12-25 can be confused with a range of That's true. And in the english-speaking world it is also used for specifying chapter and verse in the Bible. Although you wouldn't really expect Emacs to suggest useful Bible parts in the status line, so there's no real danger of confusion. :-) Thomas