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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:05:46 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Paul said:
> For user interfaces it would be better if Emacs quoted “like this” or
> ‘like this’ (i.e., using directed quote marks) in the typical case
> where these quote marks are supported.
I actually much prefer symmetry, the way it was with pre-unicode
X fonts. E.g. ‛myfoo’.
> One way to address this would be to prefer directed
> quote marks within the Emacs source code; the surrounding
> technology should recognize these quotes and do the right
> thing when displaying diagnostics on ASCII-only platforms.
One other problem (besides display) with directed quote marks is that
they're not as easy/convenient to type.
Eli wrote:
> Before we go that way, we will need to make sure the closing quote
> mark behaves like ' does, wrt syntax (and thus word-level cursor
> movement commands). Currently it doesn't.
While we'd probably want to fine tune this part, I don't think it's
a serious problem. After all, the syntax of ' already varies depending
on the major mode, so it's already not always doing the right thing
(and I regularly bump into such problems where C-h f doesn't properly
get the function name from the text around point because of that), and
changing to directed quote marks could actually help with this problem.
Stefan
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], (continued)
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks, Ulrich Mueller, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/20
- RE: quotation marks, Drew Adams, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], James Cloos, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated],
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Andreas Schwab, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Tom Tromey, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/21
Re: TUTORIAL.de updated, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/19