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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagno
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
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Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:17:15 +0000 |
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Hello, Paul.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Sorry, you've lost me. Which philosophical issue would that be?
> It's illustrated by your next comment:
> > you're conflating the two different issues of non-ascii characters
> > and non-working characters.
> We disagree about this. They're not orthogonal issues. They're so closely
> related that they're almost the same issue.
Well, as I said, I edit texts with non-ascii characters frequently, and
don't experience any particular difficulty with them. Having to type in
a decimal/hex code for a non-working character (or, even worse, having
to look up an input method for it) just stops me in my tracks. An
example is when I reply to Óscar, "Ó" being outside my working character
set.
> Emacs currently makes it harder to deal with non-ASCII and/or
> non-working characters than it could.
Could you give an example of this (pertaining, preferably, to non-ascii
working characters)? Thinking about it, maybe having to use Latin keys
in lots of bindings when ones keyboard's preferred layout is non-Latin
could be quite tiresome. But I've never seen anybody complaining about
this.
> Restricting our source code to ASCII and/or working characters has
> helped us put our heads in the sand about the problem.
Whatever problem that might be, the solution surely cannot be
artificially to inflict it on ourselves.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/17
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/17
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/08/17
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/17
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Bastien, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/08/18
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- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/19
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2015/08/20