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bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking spac
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab |
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Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:16:42 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I think the issue here is whether we want to "render" the text, or
>> whether we want to show the file's content to the user.
> Isn't whitespace-mode for showing the content, as far as spaces
> are concerned?
whitespace mode is good at showing where you have things like
trailing-spaces, but other than anal retentive guys like us,
nobody cares. OTOH many people (myself included) have wasted hours
tracking bugs where some chunk of code contained some weird char like
a NBSP that displayed exactly like a normal space but isn't parsed the
same way.
For similar reasons, we don't treat ~ in TeX as whitespace: while its
rendering will display as whitespace its meaning in the source code is
non-trivial.
I'm aware that neither ~ in TeX nor NBSP are quite the same as the
problem at hand, but there is still the same general issue of
distinguishing the specification from its rendering and when editing
a file in Emacs you often what to see what the file specifies more than
what it will render to (which you'll want to see maybe elsewhere such
as in a browser).
Stefan
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, (continued)
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Lennart Borgman, 2012/07/17
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, martin rudalics, 2012/07/17
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/17
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, martin rudalics, 2012/07/18
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/19
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, martin rudalics, 2012/07/21
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/07/21
- bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Stefan Monnier, 2012/07/22
bug#11948: 24.1.50; word-wrap should allow wrapping at all breaking space characters, not just space and tab, Stefan Monnier, 2012/07/16