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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes |
| Date: | Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Dmitry Gutov wrote:
They aren't markup, because you insist that they "stand for themselves"
They’re both. They’re markup that typically stand for themselves when generating text, and that’s a win over markup that doesn’t do that. It’s like Markdown’s syntax for URLs: you just type http://example.com and it just works. (Emacs docstrings would do well to support that idea too, but I’m digressing....)
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