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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/03/2015 05:50 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> That's why he's recommending a command.  You'd first yank and then (if
> you needed) run the quote command, which quotes what you just yanked.
> That's would be kind of like a "postfix argument".

Ok.

> It's been supported for ages, yes, but until recently it was *very*
> rarely needed.  IOW the need to write
>
>     (add-hook \\='find-file-hook \\='auto-insert)
>
> is brand new in Emacs-25, and it sucks.

Note that you also wouldn't need it here if quote-matching code uses 
sorward-sexp.

> BTW, re-using existing quoting syntaxes from other systems (e.g.
> markdown/org) is a good idea, when applicable.  E.g. it would be
> desirable to be able to take a docstring and easily convert it to
> a valid org/markdown document.

True.

> > Either way, it would be weird to quote symbol references with ` ', 
but use
> > `` `` for code expressions.
>
> I don't see why.

For consistency, I'd say. Otherwise we probably risk more typos. 
Admittedly, I'm just guessing, but `` '' also looks a bit nicer to me.