Re: non-break-space in tutorial

[Juri Linkov]

> The strength of the old display method is that it uses a familiar
> notation (backslash escape and common escape highlighting) to show
> that NBSP/soft-hyphen are "funny" characters, rather than adding yet
> another ad-hoc notation.

The new display method uses no less familiar notation.  The underlined
space looks very like the underscore character used in programming
languages to represent a space between inseparable words inside identifiers.

> Now, you may dislike this representation, but the fact that you think
> your preferred solution "is better than anything proposed so far"
> doesn't make that some kind of undisputed fact.  [Clearly, because I'm
> here disputing it.]

I never claimed it to be undisputed fact.  On the contrary, in the
mail I sent after installing the patch I asked all people to try the
new highlighting for some time period with the intention to hear all
opinions about it afterwards.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/