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Re: non-breaking hyphens
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: non-breaking hyphens |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:08:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> I'm not sure I understand the goal of `nobreak-char-display'. Is it for
>> warning the user when there is an ASCII look-alike character that isn't
>> really ASCII? I guess that's mainly to avoid issues with source code?
>
> Yes, probably. But I'm only guessing here. Can you find any traces
> of discussing this in the archives?
This is what I found, though it does not explain the rationale for the
feature:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-12/msg00954.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00035.html
And here was a request to consider adding U+FEFF to the list of
characters handled by nobreak-char-display, which apparently petered
out:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-04/msg00413.html
The right way to implement this feature, as brought up in the 2004
thread, would be to specify the affected characters with a char-table
rather than hardcoding them. But we should probably leave such a change
till after 24.1.
In the meantime, I think I'll add non-breaking hyphen and hyphen to the
hardcoded list, while deferring on the various other space characters;
many of those spaces are defined to have specific widths, so it's not
clear that changing their appearance to a highlighted space is the right
thing for Emacs to do.
- non-breaking hyphens, Chong Yidong, 2011/10/17
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/17
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Chong Yidong, 2011/10/17
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/18
- Re: non-breaking hyphens,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/18
- RE: non-breaking hyphens, Drew Adams, 2011/10/18
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Juri Linkov, 2011/10/19
- RE: non-breaking hyphens, Drew Adams, 2011/10/19
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/19
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/18
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Juri Linkov, 2011/10/19
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/19
- RE: non-breaking hyphens, Drew Adams, 2011/10/19
- Re: non-breaking hyphens, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/19