Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Quote after quote behavior

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-11-29) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> When quote-after-quote functionality is enabled, i.e. first key press
>>> inserts ", second key press replaces this by an opening or closing
>>> quotation mark (e.g. "` in documents using the `german' or `ngerman'
>>> option), it is quite difficult to insert "" which is a hyphenation aid
>>> provided by the babel package for German.  The problem is that
>>> repeatedly hitting <"> will insert "`"`"`.
>>
>> Rather "`"'"'"'.
>
> Uh, yes.
>
>>> What do people think about changing the behavior to insert " only when
>>> typing <"> and there is an opening/closing quotation mark or multiple
>>> " characters in front of point?  That means typing <"> will result
>>> in ", twice "`, three times "", four times """ and so on.  The
>>> attached patch would make this possible.
>>
>> Would appear somewhat consistent with what we do with --.  However,
>> something like
>>
>> "`"Uberflieger"' would become pretty hard to type.
>
> I think the "" is more common, so I checked it in.

It is not just a question of commonality: it pretty much becomes
_impossible_ to type the above in (apart from using C-q).  I don't
think we should really do something as invasive as that unless the
inputenc package is in use, in which case it is a good guess that the
short hands are not being used for entering accented letters.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum