Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > David Wright wrote: > > Why would I want a character that doesn't behave as a space to be > > displayed as a normal space? > > That's the question about the use case. > I don't have one. So i made Alt+Spacebar behave like Spacebar.
That's what I'm attempting to do in the VC, reported in the other thread. My first attempt (through /etc/default/keyboard, the Right Place) failed. > But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look > like space without inviting an automatic line break. > So making it look not like space would be absurd. But shell input is not a typographical context. Most source code isn't, except in literals. Documents generally are because they are displayed/printed. > > It seems a recipe for confusion at best, > > and for exploits at worst. > > It's name should be Spoof Space. On an UTF-8 terminal it > travels with Copy+Paste and survives in bash history. > > Imagine my initial panic when my few weeks old Debian told me > that there is no '..' in an ext4 directory. This is my beef. But I moved to another thread because I don't want X's involvement, except in as much as it shares configuration files like /etc/default/keyboard. And I'm trying to work it through from source to sink, ie from keyboard to application. Cheers, David.