Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/01/2015 06:39 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> So I thought we were going to replace the `...' markup with ‘...’ markup
> (which fixes both points at the same time if we assume that we keep
> sticking to ASCII quotes for the rest, tho at the cost of using
> non-ASCII markup).

That would undermine another stated goal (by Paul): improve the 
typography in Emacs.

> But if we start using curly quotes everywhere, then we're back with the
> ambiguity, so that's not a good solution.

So what's the exact ambiguity that you have in mind? Code references or 
snippets vs. everything else like key sequences?

Then I definitely misunderstood you a while back.

> So maybe a better option is to refine the `...' markup to get rid of
> the ambiguity.  E.g.:
> - `...' is only considered valid markup if ... doesn't contain any
>    whitespace (or some such restriction: it should be a simple rule that
>    still accepts most existing uses, especially those where we want to
>    place a hyperlink).

We might also want to support code snippets like `(progn (foo bar 
foo))'. At least, elisp-completion-at-point relies on snippets being 
quoted that way now. We can detect these using paired parens.

> - All other occurrences of ` and ' are treated a standalone ASCII chars
>    rather than as part of some markup.
>    So `C-x C-f' is not valid markup any more (and won't be prettified).

If you like (though I'd rather keep prettifying them until we introduce 
a better way to emphasize them as key sequences: there's no apparent 
value in not making them pretty).