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Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode
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Roland Winkler |
Subject: |
Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:54:45 +0100 |
On Thu Jan 27 2005 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I've been using VM for more than ten years. Kyle, the author of VM,
> > used to improve it continously. Unfortunately, for about a year
> > there has been hardly any update.
>
> > VM-7.19 was released 29 September 2004, which Kyle announced with
> > the words "I'm back from the dead." However, this release contained
> > mostly bugfixes. Since then, Kyle has disappeared once again from
> > the VM news groups. I find this very unfortunate, but it will make
> > it more difficult to get better multibyte support from VM.
>
> Isn't there anybody else providing occasional patches to VM?
The point is that for VM there is no CVS repository or anything like
that. VM is Kyle's thing.
> > - In multibyte mode, emacs displays non-breaking spaces with a
> > colored backslash and a space.
> > - In unibyte mode, emacs displays non-breaking space as `\240'.
> > - Always, "emacs -nw" displays non-breaking space just as a space,
> > no matter whether it is unibyte mode or multibyte mode.
>
> I've committed a patch which should fix both of the above bug.
Thank you, I just downloaded it. Now I get the following:
- In multibyte mode, emacs always displays non-breaking spaces with
a colored backslash and a space
- In unibyte mode, emacs usually displays non-breaking spaces with a
white space. However, messages in the echo area (such as those
produced by C-x =) use a colored backslash and a space.
It seems that theses messages are displayed using multibyte mode,
even though emacs was started with --unibyte.
(I don't know whether the latter could cause serious problems.)
All the above refers to both "emacs -nw" and emacs running in its
own X window, so these are now always consistent.
Now I am trying to follow your advice and use multibyte mode as much
as possible. And this brings me back to why I originally started
this thread:
Wouldn't it make sense if in view-mode the non-breaking spaces were
displayed like ordinary white spaces? I thought that the backslash
was introduced to facilitate editing. But certainly that's not an
issue when one uses view-mode.
Roland
- non-breaking spaces in view-mode, (continued)
- non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/25
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/27
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/27
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode,
Roland Winkler <=
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/27
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Roland Winkler, 2005/01/27
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/27
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Miles Bader, 2005/01/26
- Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode, Stefan Monnier, 2005/01/27