A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

[John Haggerty]

I would have to agree with that since I've had to work with Word 2007 issues
with formatting from some...demanding people in the past. Took at least
1hour plus.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:24:26 -0700, John Nagle wrote:
>
> > fortunatus wrote:
> >> On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar <vipps... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Why would you fill your website with junk?
> >>
> >> The OP made it clear:
> >>
> >>> Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode.
> >
> >     Well, it took until Python 3.0 until Python enforced rules that
> > ensured that the indentation the user sees is the same indentation the
> > compiler sees.  We finally have a solution that allows both tabs and
> > spaces but disallows the situations which are ambiguous.  Until Python
> > 3.0 is fully deployed, there are situations when you need an insane
> > level of tab/space visibility.  Blame Python, not EMACS.
>
> You know, there are situations outside of Python where it is useful to
> see otherwise invisible characters. I was using Microsoft Word's "Show
> Invisibles" functionality years before Python even existed. Being able to
> see a visual glyph in place of whitespace (including line ending
> characters) is not just useful for editing indentation.
>
>
>
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