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RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:18:53 -0800 |
One more argument -
How many people use a proportional font to view Emacs-Lisp code? With a
fixed font, the code is _less_ legible using the em-dash character than the
escape sequence. Why? Because the difference between a normal hyphen
character and an em-dash character in most fixed-width fonts is
imperceptible.
IOW, when the code is not broken because of Web access or browser problems,
it looks pretty much like this:
(let ((underline (if (char-displayable-p ?-) ?- ?-))) ...
So much for legibility of the code, bis. Hence the big honkin comment:
;; Use U+2014 (EM DASH) to underline if possible, else U+002D
(HYPHEN-MINUS)
So much for avoiding the nastiness of ?\u2014. U+2014 is much better...
- please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Drew Adams, 2007/02/16
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Richard Stallman, 2007/02/17
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Stefan Monnier, 2007/02/18
- RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Drew Adams, 2007/02/18
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/02/18
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character in buff-menu.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/18
- RE: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el, Drew Adams, 2007/02/18
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/02/18
- Re: please use ?\u2014 instead of the unicode character inbuff-menu.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/02/18