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Re: non-break-space in tutorial


From: Daniel Brockman
Subject: Re: non-break-space in tutorial
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:12:22 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

So with the lack of support for buffer-local faces and with changed treatment of `show-nonbreak-escape' we should rename this variable to something like `show-no-break-space'.

You might as well make it `show-non-breaking-spaces' if you're going to rename it anyway. The current name is ugly, and I think the name you're proposing is unnecessarily confusing. It makes you wonder what the ``break space'' is.

[...]

Since we can't predict in which context and modes users might encounter non-breaking spaces, we should make their default highlighting as least annoying as possible.

I read that as a typo for ``at least as annoying as possible.'' :-) But now that I think about it, ``as little annoying as possible'' sounds slightly awkward too. What is the correct way to say it? --
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>





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