>> So with the lack of support for buffer-local faces and with changed >> treatment of `show-nonbreak-escape' we should rename this variable >> to something like `show-no-break-space'. > > You might as well make it `show-non-breaking-spaces' if you're > going to rename it anyway. The current name is ugly, and I think > the name you're proposing is unnecessarily confusing. It makes > you wonder what the ``break space'' is.
According to the official Unicode Character Database the name of NBSP is NO-BREAK SPACE, and its _old_ name is NON-BREAKING SPACE. IMO we should use the new Unicode character name in variable names, possibly with omitting the hyphen inside the `no-break' word. Is `show-nobreak-space' is clearer than `show-no-break-space'? >> Since we can't predict in which context and modes users might >> encounter non-breaking spaces, we should make their default >> highlighting as least annoying as possible. > > I read that as a typo for ``at least as annoying as possible.'' > :-) > But now that I think about it, ``as little annoying as possible'' > sounds slightly awkward too. What is the correct way to say it? Maybe ``as unannoying as possible'' :-) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
