From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#38485: "prettified" symbols Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:42:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3183ba6c-6aea-fa25-bb32-7e5ff7c04ad6@gmail.com> <83y2vshyvn.fsf@gnu.org> <478afae1-0080-c825-5a53-1bc8e897a1cc@gmail.com> <83sgm0hvhx.fsf@gnu.org> <4e6c87d3-21c0-1820-96f2-62bb0dd7c925@gmail.com> <83r21khquw.fsf@gnu.org> <32a6f122-f21a-4522-21d6-0ae0a17b6bee@gmail.com> <83o8wnigy5.fsf@gnu.org> <83a786iyvc.fsf@gnu.org> <5b3d638e-5913-2c3d-dba1-0c3f387a7ff2@gmail.com> <83o8wmh705.fsf@gnu.org> <83h82dholj.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="142135"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, casouri@gmail.com, 38485@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 07 05:44:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1idRxC-000aqs-IL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2019 05:44:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47808 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1idRxA-0007fI-UM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41958) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1idRwq-0007de-Cz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:44:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1idRwp-0007z8-9m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1idRwo-0007y5-VL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1idRwo-0005ra-Ts for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 38485 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 38485-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B38485.157569378422419 (code B ref 38485); Sat, 07 Dec 2019 04:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 38485) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Dec 2019 04:43:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47254 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1idRvs-0005pX-Du for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58771) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1idRvr-0005p3-BY for 38485@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:43:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56922) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1idRvm-0004EI-2U; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1idRvj-0002qk-9e; Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:42:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83h82dholj.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 06 Dec 2019 09:58:48 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172990 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. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)