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Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? |
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Tue, 09 Oct 2018 23:57:01 -0400 |
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> The problem is that deciding which characters are confusable and hence
> require backslash escaping is based on a shifting mess of heuristics.
> So I don't think it's workable to signal a hard error for this. Both
> in terms of false positives which could mean possibly breaking code,
> and false negatives which means we would be giving a false sense of
> security.
In principle, that\s a valid point. But can't we assembe a fixed list
of characters that are confusable with the usual fonts. and base the
warning on that list?
We could conceivably have a feature that would check any fontset for
confusable characters, and warn the user if it has confusable pairs
that are not in the usual list of confusable pairs.
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, (continued)
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Paul Eggert, 2018/10/09
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Andreas Schwab, 2018/10/09
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Aaron Ecay, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/10
- RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Drew Adams, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Yuri Khan, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Juri Linkov, 2018/10/15
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Richard Stallman, 2018/10/09
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?,
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- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/10/10
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Richard Stallman, 2018/10/11
eval-last-sexp / C-x C-e, and punctuation like `?’' [Was: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?)], Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/06
Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/16