From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:44:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv37nhh8hy.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160710052404.GA28783@holos.localdomain
> Part of the inspiration for adding more things to some modes has been
> that of the p-s-alist in tuareg.el:
> https://github.com/ocaml/tuareg/blob/master/tuareg.el#L468
FWIW, I don't much like the new "not" and "sqrt" thingies either, tho
I wasn't bothered enough to turn them off either, so I can clearly live
with them.
I like ¬ in tuareg-mode, OTOH. Not sure exactly why my reaction is
different in those two cases. Maybe the parentheses make a difference,
or maybe it's the tradition to use longish names (and hence indent
differently) in Lisp vs the tradition to use shortish names in ML?
>> It seems a bit intrusive because I have never seen that notation before.
>> While I do know the sqrt notation √, I can imagine this being a source of
>> confusion/annoyance for some people.
I personally dislike the √ notation in all major modes because in most
of the fonts I use it looks more like a check-mark, and because for me,
the √ mathematical notation would require the attached horizontal
overline bar to make sense.
But I can't remember the last time I used `sqrt` in any programming
language, so my opinion is not really relevant.
> In any case, I don't feel strongly about it. One thing I just thought
> of is making a mode's foo-prettify-symbols-alist a defcustom--perhaps
> that will be nicer.
There's a clear need for some customization, indeed. There isn't any
right now partly because I couldn't come up with a good idea (e.g. the
format of prettify-symbols-alist is likely to be extended in ways which
are inconvenient for an end-user, and if the end-user customizes his
var he won't benefit from later improved defaults).
At some point I was tempted to add a `prettify-symbols-inhibit` which
would contain a list of chars. E.g. I'd personally put √ globally in
that list.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-10 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-10 4:44 ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist Kaushal Modi
2016-07-10 5:24 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-07-10 5:47 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-07-10 13:31 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-07-10 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-10 14:35 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-10 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-10 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-07-10 14:57 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-10 15:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-10 15:20 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-07-10 21:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-11 13:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-11 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-14 21:18 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-07-14 21:32 ` John Wiegley
2016-07-14 22:31 ` Mark Oteiza
2016-07-14 22:36 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-07-15 0:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-15 14:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-15 14:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-15 15:13 ` visual distinction for prettified symbols (was: ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist) Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-15 16:14 ` ¬ notation for not? Ref: Add a couple cells to lisp-prettify-symbols-alist Drew Adams
2016-07-15 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-15 15:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-15 15:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-15 15:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-17 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-18 14:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-18 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-18 16:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-07-15 15:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
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