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bug#13228: Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation.
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#13228: Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation. |
Date: |
Mon, 31 May 2021 09:47:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:
>>From "info texinfo":
>
>> 14.2 Inserting Quote Characters
>> ===============================
>
>> As explained in the early section on general Texinfo input conventions
>> (*note Conventions::), Texinfo source files use the ASCII character ``'
>> (96 decimal) to produce a left quote (`), and ASCII `'' (39 decimal) to
>> produce a right quote ('). Doubling these input characters (```' and
>> `''') produces double quotes (" and "). These are the conventions used
>> by TeX.
>
> So `' quoting style is common for info files. I checked it was used for
> function selection in libc and readline info files. Also it was used in GNU
> Make, R, Autotool and other manuals.
>
> So having highlighting for `' in info mode is good thing for Emacs user
> (compare with emacs-lisp-mode, where it was highlighted).
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)
I'm not sure I quite understand the request here. Is it to highlight
`foo' in .texinfo files, or in `Info-mode'? If it's the latter, I think
we've mostly moved to rendering this as ‘foo’.
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