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| author | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2018-02-14 09:53:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2018-02-14 14:58:39 +0100 |
| commit | 2cb5e50ab4b5e0cc45665c187aac9321df854358 (patch) | |
| tree | bfe1ab3a39b4768ba6cbdc32505f8f19f9727321 | |
| parent | 2da9b9fa1ce3feeaf5f3425d352f038312abb3e1 (diff) | |
| download | dotfiles-2cb5e50ab4b5e0cc45665c187aac9321df854358.tar.xz | |
Use some obscure Greek symbol as with-editor lighter
Found with C-x 8 RET EDIT TAB. From the Unicode Standard[1]:
> Ancient Greek scribes generally wrote in continuous uppercase
> letters without separating letters into words. On occasion, the
> scribe added punctuation to indicate the end of a sentence or a
> change of speaker or to separate words.
Since With-Editor acts "as the $EDITOR of an external process", I like
the "change of speaker" idea.
For posterity, a cat-and-mouse game I just completed:
- notice the " Server" string in the minor mode list
- look for "Server" in M-x describe-mode: nothing
- find out about minor-mode-alist:
> (server-buffer-clients " Server")
> server-buffer-clients is a variable defined in ‘server.el’.
- visit ‘server.el’ link
- notice that I end up in /usr/local/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/
- assume that I am running Emacs master
- assume Emacs is dumb and gives priority to /usr/local/ over ~
- visit ~/Downloads/sources/emacs/lisp/server.el manually
- spend hours looking for " Server"
- find Changelog entries referencing Bug#20201
- see that this has been removed years ago
- check Emacs version
- well whadya know this actually is 25.1
- oh yeah this is my package-upgrade instance which runs 25.1 to make
sure packages are byte-compiled by the oldest Emacs on my system
- 🤦
So on the one hand, I spent the better part of this morning reading
trivia on incredibly obscure Greek symbols, and debugging Emacs
mode-line shenanigans. On the other hand, now I know that Astérix and
Obélix are named after Aristarchian symbols.
[1]: http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/UnicodeStandard-10.0.pdf
§ 6.2 General Punctuation - Archaic Punctuation and Editorial Marks
p282 Ancient Greek Editorial Marks
See also:
http://unicode.org/L2/L2003/03324-tlg-editorialbrief.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchian_symbols
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@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ (delight 'page-break-lines-mode nil "page-break-lines") (delight 'scroll-lock-mode "📜" "scroll-lock") (delight 'visual-line-mode "⤸" t) +(delight 'with-editor-mode "⸎" "with-editor") ;; TODO: narrowing (defun my/magit-mode-hook () |
