Re: Auto-fill-mode bug: unbreakable space lost

[Stefan Monnier]

> I second that. May be we should define the shift space (S-SPC) key to
> produce the non-breaking space in the current charset (I did it for
> Hebrew - iso8859-8).

Please don't make it too easy to insert a NBSP, except in text modes.
Subreptitious insertion of NBSP in code is a pain the <beep>.

I just helped someone who suffered from "in C++ every once in a while, the
SPC after << turns into a char \240 which I can't see in Emacs but on which
gcc burps".  It turns out the problem is that to insert a < on his keyboard
he needs to hit Alt-, and he often wasn't careful enough to release the Alt
before hitting the subsequent SPC and Alt-SPC on his keyboard sends an NBSP.

So you can understand I'm not looking forward to Shift-SPC inserting
an NBSP.


        Stefan