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Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
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Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:22:29 +0200 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
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>
> > Originally, Emacs would complain that Latin-1 cannot be used, and
> > asked the user to select a different encoding.
> >
> > That is about Latin-1. What did Emacs do, at that time, with UTF-8?
>
> The situation I described is with text encodable by UTF-8, but not by
> Latin-1. So it has no analogue when UTF-8 is used to begin with.
>
> It looks like that past case isn't directly pertinent to this issue,
> then.
>
> What will Emacs do, under this proposal, if the user is asked whether
> to keep the original raw bytes and answers NO?
>
> Abort the operation, I suppose.
It's going to be a wagonload of fun if I do
emacsclient `git grep -l some-pattern`
in order to edit 30 files and Emacs decides to abort and/or ask each
time a comment contains a stray latin-1 character.
> Our experience with such prompts is that they are perceived as
> annoyances, no matter whether they happen at read or at write time.
>
> Maybe so, but how big of an annoyance depends on how often it happens.
The main point is that annoyance does not serve a purpose. It's like a
secretary who refuses to file letters with spelling errors in them.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/10
- RE: Emacs Lisp's future, Drew Adams, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/12
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/11
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/09
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/10
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/07
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/06