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Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:06:14 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sebastian Rose <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup writes:
>>> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> > > I meant pre-existing corruption [...]
>>> >
>>> > That interpretation is not the business of the editor.
>>>
>>> Precisely my point. The editor has *no* way to interpret at the point
>>> of encountering the invalid sequence, and therefore it should *stop*
>>> and ask the user what to do. That doesn't mean it should throw away
>>> the data, but it sure does mean that it should not continue as though
>>> there is valid data in the buffer.
>>>
>>> Emacs is welcome to do that, but I am sure you will get bug reports
>>> about it.
>>
>> Why would we get a bug report about Emacs saving a file changed only in
>> the locations that the user actually edited?
>>
>> People might complain when Emacs does not recognize some encoding
>> properly, but they certainly will not demand that Emacs should stop
>> working altogether.
>
>
> People do indeed complain on the emacs-orgmode mailing list and I can
> reproduce their problems.
What meaning of "indeed" are you using here? This is a complaint about
Emacs _not_ faithfully replicating a byte pattern that it expects to be
in a particular encoding.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg19778.html
>
> I guess this is related?
It is related, but it bolsters rather than defeats my argument.
People don't _like_ Emacs to cop out altogether.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., (continued)
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., David Kastrup, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., David Kastrup, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., David Kastrup, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Sebastian Rose, 2009/11/21
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Sebastian Rose, 2009/11/22
- Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/11/19