From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <877fqnzpno.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435614643 22379 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 21:50:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 23:50:29 2015 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 1Z9gwe-0001fu-5U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:50:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44166 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gwd-00062S-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:50:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gwZ-00062N-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gwY-0007El-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gwC-0006Dn-9q; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9gwB-0003bp-5S; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:49:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <877fqnzpno.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:52:27 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:187650 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > For example, I've seen uses of ⸢foo⸥ for marking up source code > snippets. Those display as diamond shapes on my Linux console. > BTW: On a related note: I don't get why *Help* buffers display quotes at > all when they are already displayed with a face that makes them > distinguishable from "normal" text and are clickable. Not all terminals can display the different face. On those that can, your point may be valid. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.