Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes

[Paul Eggert]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 09/04/2015 12:50 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
> > > If the programmer types ‘foo‘, they can easily miss the non-matching
> > > quotes
> >
> > First, the two scenarios are the same in the typical text-quoting-style
> > case, because the output looks like ‘foo‘ either way,
>
> Not if the translation logic checks for pairing.

Ah, sorry, I thought the context was the current Emacs master, not Emacs after 
some further changes are applied to it.  In the current master most of the 
problems you mentioned are not a big deal in practice, as typically there's 
immediate visual feedback when one types the wrong quote.  It is true that in 
some more-complicated cases this breaks down, but this is a nearly inevitable 
consequence of any markup syntax that uses quotes to represent so many different 
concepts, regardless of whether the syntax uses ASCII or curved quotes.

You are correct in that if we came up with a different markup syntax that was 
more systematic and organized, many of these more-complicated cases would work 
better.