Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:53:56 +0200:
> I don't know about you other guys, but something seems fishy with JS' > .emacs file. When I read the post above, each supposed-to-be space > character has a magenta coloured backlshash in front of it, suggestion > some special or control-character. > I won't paste his text here again (it is above), but if you do not see > what I see, this is how it looks (drawn in normal ascii): > (add-hook 'this-major-mode-hook > \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (lambda\ () > \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (local-set-key\ "\C-cc"\ 'uncomment-region))) > When I put the cursor on one of those and used C-x =, this is what I > got: > Char: \ (04240, 2208, 0x8a0, file 0xA0) point=961 of 1442 (67%) column > 0 iso-8995-1 0xA0 is "non-break space". Perhaps JS's newsreader (Knode) is "trying to be helpful" in pre-empting the possibility of the line being broken up by filling. > Note: I had to use normal ascii to be sure that the "backslash-space" > char above was displayed correctly. It is indeed only one character. > Anyway, just a thought. > /Mathias -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs