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: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83pow26svf.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8n5srbp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s17npz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oablfpn3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834mdd6llx.fsf@gnu.org> <7fbb8bc7-9a97-4bad-a103-a6690a35241d@default> <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> <83fuwproyf.fsf@gnu.org> <837fi0sz29.fsf@gnu.org> <83egc8qzjh.fsf@gnu.org> <87egc7evu3.fsf@gnus.org> <83io1jpt4u.fsf@gnu.org> <87povqhj25.fsf@gnus.org> <83povqm3dw.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 1456163985 25966 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2016 17:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 18:59:30 2016 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 1aXulb-0002Bo-Un for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:59:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulb-0005LO-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulK-0005Iy-PD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulJ-0006g6-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulB-0006WX-E0; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aXulA-0008LS-9A; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:59:00 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:58:37 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:200471 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. ]]] > Right. I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. As you know, I'm advocating > choosing a default language based on the locale of the user. We need: * A per-buffer language preference variable. * A global value which becomes the default for new buffers. The global value can be initialized when Emacs starts based on the locale. -- 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.