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Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:55:01 +0000


FWIW, I too do not see why ` would be "ugly". I attach screenshots of what that character looks like in ten popular programming fonts; each shows the nine (!) possible conventions, together with the Unicode quotes.

This shows that Unicode quotes consistently look good, while the others look antiquated at best. The single apostrophes on both sides ('like this') is also okay, but still worse from a typographic standpoint.


Others might have a different opinion, depending on the font they use.

What would perhaps be welcome is a user option to ask Emacs to display apostrophes as acutes in `foobar' (and possibly another option to ask Emacs to use `´ instead of ‘’ in messages, errors and help buffers).

Are you looking for `text-quoting-style'?


Not really. Part of what I suggest would be solved with another option to text-quoting-style. What we have no is ‘this’, 'this' and `this'. What we could add is `this´. And the other part of what I suggest is to have, say, a buffer-quoting-style option, which would have the same effect in regular buffers as the text-quoting-style in help buffers.
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