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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID b4b73e982b105c326a78e2bd4bb8daaa; Sat, 04 Jun 2022 11:53:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <878rqcacgm.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:35:05 +0200") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20225 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:233649 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > It was mostly an aesthetic change, but sometimes aesthetics are > important. People do use dot characters in symbols, but it's confusing > to see Emacs display these in a weird way -- so they may be discouraged > from doing so when that's a natural thing to do. FWIW, I don't see how it's natural to use dots in symbols. It certainly feels weird to me. Symbol names should ideally consist of the punctuation characters "-+=*/", letters and digits.