From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interface of prog-prettification Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371485130 20127 80.91.229.3 (17 Jun 2013 16:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 17 18:05:31 2013 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 1Uobvr-0001Uj-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:05:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33889 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uobvq-0005eV-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uobvm-0005bD-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uobvl-0004Lf-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::22b]:59921) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uobvl-0004LU-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id l10so1920142eei.16 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:05:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=E/33PAh9qbCP2024B7vxE3lZt2ZQRjmMbxDgop7m7QQ=; b=oG2ePK4Bt7yivmYVKxZYA3h0N7V6leE2guqJ0f08HNcqS32zvDJfFOw82zNNddVfFB 35uMjOMuuqiVcbTZMxbtcoyOMb7OV1q4fweSbELq7hVW5MuYePA2nem+3PQ+2QAQwROU 6i2Yh7XdAEfKRXSgxnEnNUBLtCHFP4UXHP4ZmLUwmgCyVxpYyX6eEL7PJMv+99an/RXQ 7HSvYiGhfWzAErzvcG6ip4T/xOccAT3Lz3XJGQHyPSPkxs1RH934/jYJBF8vfzOiFP6f bY9m/jugwAT0Dw81hIl1aB7hTmSe+uOciN4CUJUKL6kvyqFdbuWLof3xB9hiJCPN+m5R shDg== X-Received: by 10.15.36.133 with SMTP id i5mr17876604eev.52.1371485120520; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.14.142.4 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:04:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c00::22b 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:160508 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > That is a claim that 3 people have a use case for it and that one of > those use cases involves the words TODO and README. > > But I don't see any description of a concrete use case here. Truth be told, I don't have a use case, and Ted's comment about my position is a misunderstanding, I think. I just pointed out that composition can compose to strings, not just characters (but that is not the same that substituting one string of chars by another one). That said, a facility for making that ("visually" replacing one string by another) could be useful (via composition, display specs, or whatever) but I don't think it is something specifically related to prog mode or symbol prettification. Seems like some sort of as-yet-unimplemented minor mode to me. Speaking of which... Why is this symbol prettification some semi-obscure feature of programming modes, instead of a minor mode to be enabled by the user however he sees fit? J