Re: non-break-space in tutorial

[Miles Bader]

On 6/8/05, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> The new display method uses no less familiar notation.  The underlined
> space looks very like the underscore character used in programming
> languages to represent a space between inseparable words inside identifiers.

Huh?  Such a representation is hardly "familiar" as a way of
representing funny characters in Emacs.  It may not be unreasonable
once it's explained, but that's not what I'm disputing.

> I never claimed it to be undisputed fact.  On the contrary, in the
> mail I sent after installing the patch I asked all people to try the
> new highlighting for some time period with the intention to hear all
> opinions about it afterwards.

The standard method for dealing with potentially controversial changes
is to suggest a change, and solicit feedback until a reasonable
concensus is reached, or the maintainer makes a decision.  This is
annoying, I know, but there's a reason for it:  if everyone just
installed their disputed patches "for people to try out", there would
be chaos, something which we especially want to avoid at the moment. 
Changes once made have a way of sticking around even if they were
originally deemed temporary.

-Miles
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