Re: non-breaking spaces in view-mode

[Roland Winkler]

On Thu Jan 27 2005 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The point is that for VM there is no CVS repository or anything like
> > that.  VM is Kyle's thing.
> 
> Duh!  Isn't there at least a VM package in XEmacs's CVS repository
> of packages?

I am sorry, I do not enough about XEmacs to answer this question.
The only thing I know is that in recent years, Kyle simply announced
new releases of VM in the newsgroup gnu.emacs.vm.info. There are
several sites where you can download VM tar balls, see

http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/
http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/download.html

> > 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.
> 
> I think I agree, at least in the sense that "buffers which are not
> editable" should not use the "\ ". But if you open your C code
> files in view-mode (kind of like vi's modal editing model), it
> still makes sense to display nonbreaking spaces as "\ ".

Good point. I never thought about reading source code with
view-mode. But apparently different people have different tastes.

Before I started this thread I tested the variable
show-nonbreak-escape. However, it didn't do anything for me. (I
always got the octale sequence `\240'.) Now that you solved the
latter, show-nonbreak-escape works for me, too.

Roland