On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:36:07 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:36:25 +0100, Jeremy Sanders wrote: >>> "To conserve memory, Emacs does not hold fixed-length 22-bit numbers >>> that are codepoints of text characters within buffers and strings. >>> Rather, Emacs uses a variable-length internal representation of >>> characters, that stores each character as a sequence of 1 to 5 8-bit >>> bytes, depending on the magnitude of its codepoint[1]. For example, >>> any ASCII character takes up only 1 byte, a Latin-1 character takes up >>> 2 bytes, etc. We call this representation of text multibyte. >> >> Well, you've just proven what Vim users have always suspected: Emacs >> doesn't really exist. > > ... lolwut?
JMF has explained that it is impossible, impossible I say!, to write an editor using a flexible string representation. Since Emacs uses such a flexible string representation, Emacs is impossible, and therefore Emacs doesn't exist. QED. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
