From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner questions
Date: 1 Oct 2013 20:02:46 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnl4maj6.2qk.joost.m.kremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f2b82c45-32ba-427c-aac1-b05ed01e02b1@googlegroups.com
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Rustom Mody wrote:
> Finally switched to vi. It showed me:
> [[http://cs.brown.edu/people/pw/papers/monist.ps<200e>][Philosophical diffs between OOp and FP]]
>
> 200e??? What the hell...
> Asked emacs to describe-char (the nothing at that point!) and that is something called 'left-to-right-mark'
>
> So humble request: Please show what is there!
Well, if you google left-to-right-mark, you'll see that it is an
"invisible formatting character", which means that it shouldn't be
displayed. So arguably vi was doing the wrong thing when it showed you
the hex code. Now, obviously something like this is confusing when one
doesn't know what's going on, but I don't think Emacs is doing the wrong
thing here.
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-01 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 7:55 beginner questions JohnF
2013-09-25 9:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 11:18 ` JohnF
2013-09-25 12:55 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 8:39 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 15:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 17:11 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 18:07 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-29 3:45 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-28 22:32 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-29 8:30 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-29 7:27 ` JohnF
2013-09-29 13:45 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-30 8:46 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 2:22 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-09-25 17:47 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.2869.1380131281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 7:44 ` JohnF
2013-09-26 17:52 ` Ken Goldman
[not found] ` <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 2:37 ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 8:16 ` JohnF
2013-09-28 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3090.1380392333.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-29 7:58 ` JohnF
2013-10-01 17:27 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-01 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-01 20:02 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2013-10-02 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3227.1380675393.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-02 14:34 ` Rustom Mody
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