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Message #65 received at 38485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com, casouri <at> gmail.com, 38485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: "prettified" symbols
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:42:55 -0500

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  > It displays symbol names in programming languages as pretty symbols.
  > For example, "lambda" in Lisp can be displayed as λ.  This uses static
  > character composition to do its job.

It sounds like something that might perhaps help with reading a
program, but wouldn't it make editing confusing?  'lambda' is 6
characters; making it appear as one character has to mess something
up.

As long as it is disabled by default, I don't see a problem in having
the feature.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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