Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-18 Thread Rui Maciel
Xah Lee wrote: > 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. CSV stands for "comma separated values" and the import facilities of any spreadsheet ap

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-17 Thread Jason Earl
Xah Lee writes: > 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/ Xah, I disagree with you about the usefulness of whitespace-mode's defaults, and I certainly disagree with the need to us

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
I would have to agree with that since I've had to work with Word 2007 issues with formatting from some...demanding people in the past. Took at least 1hour plus. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano < st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:24:26 -0700, Jo

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:24:26 -0700, John Nagle wrote: > fortunatus wrote: >> On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: >>> Why would you fill your website with junk? >> >> The OP made it clear: >> >>> Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. > > Well, it took until Python 3.

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread John Nagle
fortunatus wrote: On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: Why would you fill your website with junk? The OP made it clear: Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. Well, it took until Python 3.0 until Python enforced rules that ensured that the indentation the user see

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Xah Lee writes: > • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_whitespace-mode_problems.html > [... snip 38 lines ...] OK, Xah, thanks for good writing, i'll read it 27 hours later. And i respect for your pa

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread Xah Lee
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 wrote: > • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode > http://xahlee.org/UnixResour

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Sounds like a bad case of STRIS http://blog.dcuktec.com/2009/08/stris.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread fortunatus
On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: > Why would you fill your website with junk? The OP made it clear: >Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread Brian
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:46 PM, magicus wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:57:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant > wrote: > > > vippstar wrote: > >> On Aug 14, 8:25 pm, fortunatus wrote: > >> > >>> On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: > >>> > >>> > Why would you fill your website with junk? > >>

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread magicus
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:57:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > vippstar wrote: >> On Aug 14, 8:25 pm, fortunatus wrote: >> >>> On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: >>> >>> Why would you fill your website with junk? >>> The OP made it clear: >>> >>> Just wanted to exp

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
vippstar wrote: On Aug 14, 8:25 pm, fortunatus wrote: On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: Why would you fill your website with junk? The OP made it clear: Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. You took my question out of context and ans

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread vippstar
On Aug 14, 8:25 pm, fortunatus wrote: > On Aug 14, 1:01 pm, vippstar wrote: > > > Why would you fill your website with junk? > > The OP made it clear: > > >Just wanted to express some frustration with whitespace-mode. You took my question out of context and answered it. I read the article, it's

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread vippstar
On Aug 14, 4:36 am, Xah Lee wrote: > • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode >  http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_whitespace-mode_problem... Instead of writing a completely useless article you could had asked for help in an emacs newsgroup, or wait

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-14 Thread despen
"Martin P. Hellwig" writes: > Sounds like a bad case of STRIS > http://blog.dcuktec.com/2009/08/stris.html I believe the correct technical term for it is potty mouth. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-13 Thread Xah Lee
• 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