emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:58:30 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <address@hidden> writes:

Stephen> GCC is using *both* %` to supply mirrored quotes *and* %<, %> to
Stephen> supply individual quotes?

Yes, you can use %< and %>, or use the 'q' flag to quote.

Stephen> If so, -1 to GCC, too.

It is convenient in practice.  %<..%> is more frequently used to quote
literal text, though I do see a few instances of %<%s%> in the tree,
where %qs would have been simpler.

Tom



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]