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Re: non-break-space in tutorial
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: non-break-space in tutorial |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:59:16 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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.
According to the official Unicode Character Database the name of NBSP
is NO-BREAK SPACE, and its _old_ name is NON-BREAKING SPACE.
IMO we should use the new Unicode character name in variable names,
possibly with omitting the hyphen inside the `no-break' word.
Is `show-nobreak-space' is clearer than `show-no-break-space'?
>> 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?
Maybe ``as unannoying as possible'' :-)
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Juri Linkov, 2005/06/06
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Stefan Monnier, 2005/06/06
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Miles Bader, 2005/06/06
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Miles Bader, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Gaëtan LEURENT, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Miles Bader, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Miles Bader, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Gaëtan LEURENT, 2005/06/08
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Juri Linkov, 2005/06/08
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Juri Linkov, 2005/06/07
- Re: non-break-space in tutorial, Miles Bader, 2005/06/07