smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents

[Martin Blais]

;;; Commentary

;; The functions provided by xmlunicode.el for the insertion of the fancy
;; unicode quotes (double and single) take into account the context of the
;; document for XML documents. Those quotes are more useful, in my experience,
;; in text files written in UTF-8 encoding, such as ReST syntax. The XML
;; functions from xmlunicode often do not work properly in text files, due to
;; the presence of the occasional < or > symbol.

;; Therefore, the smart insertion functions are difficult to use, because their
;; behavior is unpredictable. In accordance with The Humane Interface principles
;; (see J.Raskins' book), we provide context-independent versions of these
;; functions that are much easier to learn and use quickly, since their
;; behaviour is unambigous.

;;; Usage

;; To use the suggested bindings, insert this in your .emacs:

;;    (require 'smartquotes)
;;    (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'text-mode-unicode-hook)

;; This does the following for text-mode bindings:

;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes;

;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes;

;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional
;;   fourth dot resumes with a string of dots;

;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an
;;   ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of
;;   normal hyphens.

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