Re: text-quoting-style

[Paul Eggert]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Emacs cuts&pastes HT and SP perfectly well
> without modification.

Sure, but that doesn't mean HT and SP always act as themselves and display as 
themselves; they don't.  If you search by typing C-s followed SP, for example, 
the search matches HT in the buffer.  And if you type HT into the *scratch* 
buffer first thing, the HT is ignored.  There are many other examples.  These 
behaviors are OK even though they don't follow the design philosophy that every 
character must stand for itself and nothing else.  Emacs does not follow that 
philosophy, and never has.