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Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"?
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Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: Why does "non-breaking space" have syntax "punctuation"? |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:24:44 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2018-08-13, at 08:59, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> On August 13, 2018 8:26:19 AM GMT+03:00, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-08-13, at 04:27, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> >> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:05:12 +0200
>> >>
>> >> I'd report a bug, but I'd like to ask here first - maybe it's by
>> design?
>> >
>> > What syntax did you expect it to have?
>>
>> Whitespace, of course. What else?
>>
>> Best,
>
> See the comment on line 524 of characters.el.
Thanks, so I know that it's by design. Now the question is: _why_?
Use case: when writing in a natural language and searching for e.g. two
words which might or might not have a nbsp between them, it would be
intuitive/nice to be able to say [[:space:]].
Best,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl