From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ChangeLog fontifications Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405132050.00109.bruno@clisp.org> <871xloxezs.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <20040513.233755.258207743.wl@gnu.org> <20040513215623.GA14133@fencepost> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084549471 11632 80.91.224.253 (14 May 2004 15:44:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 15:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri May 14 17:44:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOerC-00088g-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BOerC-0000ux-00 for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:44:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOdfp-0008Rp-Kl for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 10:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOde9-00081B-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 10:26:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BOddZ-0007px-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 10:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.114.245] (helo=rattlesnake.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BOddY-0007p3-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2004 10:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.115) Fri, 14 May 2004 09:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Karl Eichwalder on Fri, 14 May 2004 05:00:44 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23405 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23405 `(a)(b)\n(c)' is better than `(a, b)\n(c)' because the second flavor is highly misleading: grouping is artificial. That is how I perceive also. It may look all right with a parenthesis at the beginning of the second line, but the grouping is misleading. Troublesome as it is, `(a, b,\nc)' is better, unless, of course, the grouping is different. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises As I slowly update it, bob@rattlesnake.com I rewrite a "What's New" segment for http://www.rattlesnake.com