Fresh out of the oven: • How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html
Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Aug 13, 6:36 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_whitespace-mode_problems.html > > plane text version follows: > -------------------------------------------------- > > A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode > > Xah Lee, 2009-08-13 > > Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. > > Emacs 23, just released, has this whitespace-mode feature. It renders > spaces, tabs, newlines characters with a visible glyph. This feature, > is in Microsoft Word since about 1992. > > This feature is important in practical ways. For example, when you > work with “tab separated line” files (CSV) that's a common format for > importing/exporting address books or spreadsheets. It's also important > in whitespace-significant langs such as Python. Or, in text processing > when placement of space and tabs matters in the output. > > All i wanted, is to make Space and Tab and Newline chars visible. > > However, the emacs whitespace-mode does much more than that. It is > designed for tech geeking control freaks to tune every aspect of white > space in his source code. The mode is filled with bells and whistles. > It distinguishes tabs mixed with spaces, EOLs mixed with spaces, EOLs > at beginning of file, EOLs at end of file, run on spaces at end of > line, lines that has nothing to do with white spaces but is simply > longer than 80 chars, etc. Each of these is rendered with different > foreground, background, colors, so that they cannot possibly escape > the notices of control freaks. > > By default, most of these are on, so that, when you turn on the mode, > most reasonable clean source code become this colorful rainbow > unreadable fuck. > > I tried to tune it, with my 10 years of emacs of fucking 16 hours of > using per day, and 3 years of elisp coding experience. But, after a > hour, it's confusion hell sans avail. > > O, that Alex idiot with his emacswiki, refused to lead emacswiki into > any readable state. All he can think about is my social skills. (See: > Problems of Emacswiki.) > > What the fuck motherfuck. Hi tech geekers, coding freaks, social > science ignoramus fucks, basic economics illiterate FSF fucks, freedom > abusing selfish ideologists fucks, Richard Stallman propagandist fuck, > we-try-to-be-easy-to-use linuxer idioting fucks, FUCK U. > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list