Re: address@hidden: RE: cannot find :enable in Elisp manualindex]

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Eli!

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:26:13PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 11:18:10 +0100
> > Cc: Drew Adams <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> >   address@hidden
> > From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>

> > Would enhancing the format [Info] with some quoting convention
> > really amount to a redesign, rather than just being an incremental
> > enhancement?

> If you can suggest a quoting convention that doesn't break backward
> compatibility, maybe it will qualify as incremental enhancement.  It's
> not easy, since currently Info is almost plain text, so any character
> can be used in it.
 
I suggested using "non-break-space" as an an escape character (though
the suggestion probably got buried in the rant).  This isn't an ASCII
character, but is 0xA0 in ISO-8859-1.  If NBS is common enough
throughout character sets, it would be a minimally disruptive
convention, since it would appear simply as a space in displayers which
didn't interpret it.

-- 
Alan.