From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kendall Shaw Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Modify text appearance (put spaces after commas just for display) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:02:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87tvzpx1qo.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <861smt3j24.fsf@zoho.com> <20170926093255.GD1556@tuxteam.de> <86wp4l22du.fsf@zoho.com> <874lrnt64x.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <20170928120955.GB11874@tuxteam.de> <867ewi22sb.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506650561 30627 195.159.176.226 (29 Sep 2017 02:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:02:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 29 04:02:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dxkdP-0007Qx-TO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2017 04:02:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxkdX-0006oU-4L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:02:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxkd4-0006oE-PK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:02:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxkd1-0008O4-NX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from c.mail.sonic.net ([64.142.111.80]:37516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dxkd1-0008Mh-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.76] (108-64-77-57.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [108.64.77.57]) (authenticated bits=0) by c.mail.sonic.net (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id v8T2256r022568 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:02:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <867ewi22sb.fsf@zoho.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVZXEabNN/KR8IHNv7fhJbzdaM+TDnRgJcByJ3SfTwj5Hd0RzOEfFDUfrTvl7BjIyX+c9Y2OHrNGL0iznBlPatz+ X-Sonic-ID: C;BsFuMbqk5xGsHoKfRUfeDw== M;qhjrMbqk5xGsHoKfRUfeDw== X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.142.111.80 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114456 Archived-At: On 09/28/2017 09:42 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > t wrote: > >> Well, those were the real wizards. > Write code like that, can't keep it up for > months let alone the time it takes to become > a wizard. > > Discontinued algorithm. If someone had to interact with others who used that style, and if it was not a simple matter to force others to accept a different code style, one way to live with it might be to look for a way to have the code displayed in a way that is easier to read, without changing the actual text of the code. Kendall