From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juri Linkov'" <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: non-breaking hyphens
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CFC4398730EB4F4BAF495698C36DF1AF@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3dtl9j7.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> > FWIW, I suggest adding simple search and search-and-replace
> > commands to check for such groups of "false friends". This
> > would be in addition to the display changes that you are discussing.
>
> What you suggest reminds UI used when trying to save a file
> with characters
> that can't be encoded with default coding systems, i.e. that displays:
>
> Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o'
> and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
> where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it.
Maybe. But my suggestion was to drive everything off of a user-customizable
data structure: groups of confusables together with an identified preferred
value for each group (could be just the first or last confusable in the list, or
could be a separate entry for the group).
If, for example, the UI part was to provide a query-replace-faux-amis command
for a given group of confusables (or for all groups at once), every confusable
in a given group would be sought, and the default replacement would be the
identified preferred value for the group.
If you think that the preferred value for a group might often depend on the
context (e.g. mode), then the data structure could have a 3rd field for a
predicate or mode variable (or t or nil for always). In case of overlapping
groups and predicates, the data-structure order would govern. And so on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 13:56 non-breaking hyphens Chong Yidong
2011-10-17 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-18 3:39 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-18 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-18 12:08 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-18 13:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-18 17:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-19 8:28 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-19 13:59 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-10-19 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-18 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 8:27 ` Juri Linkov
2011-10-19 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-19 13:59 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-19 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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