Kinsoku

Yoshiki> Agreed except that I don't think I understand (2). What Yoshiki> kind of use of text property do you have in mind? Oops, I think I got that wrong; I accidentally blew away my tree so don't have sources to look at right now. Not text properties, exactly, but properties of charsets. In the current XEmacs implementation, there is a regexp `word-across-newline', and kinsoku is implemented (if (looking-at word-across-newline) ;; break here is OK ;; dame, dame, go back and try again ) (Obviously more complex, but you get the idea.) In Emacs 20.7, it's done by setting a kinsoku property on character sets or with category tables, and doing something like (if (charset-property (char-charset (char-after (point))) 'word-across-newline) ;; hai, ganbatte, go for it ;; dame dame, no good go back ) This is more compatible with handling kinsoku language by language, which is preferable. The reason I was thinking of text properties is that there is this long-standing problem with kinsoku, that kinsoku means that whitespace needs to be preserved at line breaks. So the hack that has historically been used is to leave a space at the end of the line, but this screws up automated format checking tools. (Yes, there are still organizations out there that insist you set the margins to 80 columns, and heaven help the programmer if there's whitespace hanging out into the right margin.) One thing that could be done here is to set a text property on the newline to indicate whether it is significant whitespace or just a line break. This doesn't help to preserve whitespace across file saves, unfortunately; however, if you don't kill the buffer, Emacs will remember the state even though there is no indication in the saved file. Yoshiki> Perhaps another change is (3) fix two-column hack of Yoshiki> Japanese characters. However, I haven't given any Yoshiki> thought to this issue. This is relatively hard, I think. What did you have in mind? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."