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Re: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp?


From: Stephen Berman
Subject: Re: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:29:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:32:49 -0700 "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote:

>> >> >   (let ((timelist (split-string time ":")))
>> >> > When I dan give M-x getMinutes and on the prompt give: 00:18, I get:
>> >> > Symbol's function definition is void: let
[...]
>
> I don't even know if this is a problem with Emacs 22. The OP said something
> about intending to upgrade to 22 with the hope of alleviating this problem.
[...]
> We should be able to find some way to make things clear to a user that s?he
> needs to convert nonbreakable spaces to spaces, or else we should treat
> nonbreakable spaces as whitespace for Lisp code. I don't have a strong
> opinion about the solution, but I think a problem has been pointed out to
> which we should find a good solution.

Emacs 22 has nobreak-char-display, which by default makes the
non-breaking space be displayed as a space with red underlining.
That's a pretty clear sign that there's something there other than a
normal space.

Steve Berman





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