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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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visual-line vs word-wrap:
AFAICT, visual-line is word-wrap plus some customizable options:
- fringe indicators;
- specialized editing commands.
So there is no reason to bother with word-wrap.
Appending through dir-locals:
I wanted to have lists in dir-locals *appended* to the variables,
rather than overwritten, eg:
;; in .emacs:
(setq my/foo '(1 2 3))
;; in .dir-locals.el:
((c-mode . ((my/foo . (4 5 6)))))
;; M-: my/foo in a C buffer:
(1 2 3 4 5 6)
I don't think there is built-in support for this. I guess the
simplest way to emulate it would be to
1. put (4 5 6) in some other variable my/bar;
2. write a hook that appends my/bar to my/foo.
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C-M-S-h (ie control alt shift H) still works in graphical frames,
which covers 99% of my usage.
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BECAUSE CONSISTENCY DAMMIT.
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I mean I can't live with it on C-<backspace> or M-<backspace>.
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