From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, casouri@gmail.com, 38485@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38485: "prettified" symbols
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:42:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1idRvj-0002qk-9e@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h82dholj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 06 Dec 2019 09:58:48 +0200)
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> It displays symbol names in programming languages as pretty symbols.
> For example, "lambda" in Lisp can be displayed as λ. This uses static
> character composition to do its job.
It sounds like something that might perhaps help with reading a
program, but wouldn't it make editing confusing? 'lambda' is 6
characters; making it appear as one character has to mess something
up.
As long as it is disabled by default, I don't see a problem in having
the feature.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-07 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 4:22 bug#38485: Customizing glyph widths Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-04 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-04 16:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-04 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-04 18:14 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-04 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-04 20:53 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-05 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-05 14:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-05 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-05 19:50 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-05 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-05 20:53 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-06 4:15 ` bug#38485: "prettified" symbols Richard Stallman
2019-12-06 5:51 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-06 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-07 4:42 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-12-04 20:55 ` bug#38485: Customizing glyph widths Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-05 3:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-05 14:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2019-12-05 3:57 ` Yuan Fu
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