From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:54:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HzqXB-0001iE-5W@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85sl8rljg5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:42:50 +0200)
If we treat nonbreakable spaces as whitespace when people cut&paste
from something like KNode, this means that the mangling of spaces will
go unnoticed.
Users will notice them if they edit with Emacs 22, because they are
highlighted.
Since they can occur not only in code itself but also
in strings and character constants, this is an excessively bad idea.
The error to be eliminated does not occur when they are used in
strings and character constants, and the change has no effect on
such usage.
Would someone please make the change and ack?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-17 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-16 19:45 should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp? Drew Adams
2007-06-16 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-16 20:32 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-16 20:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-17 8:54 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-23 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-16 21:29 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-16 22:27 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-16 23:39 ` Stephen Berman
2007-06-17 8:54 ` Richard Stallman
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