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Re: Ligatures
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Ligatures |
Date: |
Tue, 19 May 2020 11:44:31 -0400 |
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On 19/05/2020 11.21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> And I don't think arguing about defaults in Emacs is useful, because
> changing the default if you don't like it is easy. We do change the
> default behavior slowly, though.
I see this argument often (changing settings is easy), but I don't find it very
convincing: in my experience, even after years of using Emacs, figuring which
variable controls a given behavior, if there is even such a variable, is
usually not easy: it requires reading manuals, guessing the right keywords, and
often stepping through function implementations.
It's quite a bit easier in Emacs than in other editors, but still not easy at
all.
>>> For example, how about a special
>>> insert command that would disable ligation with the character it
>>> inserts?
>>
>> Would that command be called automatically, or would it require a different
>> input?
>
> You'd invoke it when you either know in advance you don't want the
> next character to ligate, or after you saw the ligature to disable the
> ligation for the sequence at or before point.
That assumes that I know whether inserting a character will introduce a
ligation, but I usually don't. I can't keep in my head a list of all the
ligatures that my font supports, so I'm bound to be surprised from time to time
(besides, this is very contextual. When I write a language where /\ and \/ are
used to mean "and" and "or", I think of it when I type a / or a \. But when
I'm in a context where /…/ is used to delimit regular expressions and \ is used
to escape a character, I don't think of the \/ ligature.
>> I don't think Emacs can guess whether it should enable or disable ligation,
>> so I imagine you mean different input, but that doesn't sound pleasant to
>> use, so maybe I'm misunderstanding?
>
> Emacs cannot, but the user can. Thus a separate command.
I don't think that will work, but maybe I'm missing something. How does this
work if I open a file that already has a ligature and I want to modify it? Do
I have to explicitly break the ligature before I can edit it?
More importantly, though, I don't understand what problem it would solve, at
least in the context of programming ligatures. What is the problem with
allowing cursor movement through ligatures like → for ->?
- Re: Ligatures, (continued)
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Tassilo Horn, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/18
- Re: Ligatures, Pip Cet, 2020/05/19
- Re: Ligatures, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2020/05/19
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