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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentat
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:47:22 -0700 |
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On 03/14/2016 12:29 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
Could we render the quotes the way that we currently do for Elisp
documentation?
Yes, that could be done. We'd need an escape mechanism for the rare
cases where quotes should not be replaced, as in the following lines:
NEWS:66:unless gfile is explicitly requested via
--with-file-notification='gfile'.
NEWS:576:(add-to-list 'display-buffer-alist
NEWS:577: '("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
NEWS:639:folding in the middle of a search by typing ‘M-s '’.
NEWS:1458:for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave
accent
NEWS:1459:and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like
‘curve’
NEWS:1745:apostrophe `like-this'. The new style looks better on today’s
displays.
NEWS:1747:into documentation by typing ` and '. Outside Electric Quote
mode,
If we use substitute-command-keys (simplest), the above lines would turn
into:
unless gfile is explicitly requested via
--with-file-notification=\='gfile\='.
(add-to-list \='display-buffer-alist
\='("^\\*shell\\*$" . (display-buffer-same-window))).
folding in the middle of a search by typing ‘M-s \='’.
for straight apostrophes \='like this\=', and to `grave' for grave accent
and apostrophe \=`like this\='. The default value nil acts like `curve'
apostrophe \=`like-this\='. The new style looks better on today's displays.
into documentation by typing \=` and \='. Outside Electric Quote mode,
Plus, this line:
before, characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
would need to be changed to this:
before, characters preceded by \=\= are output as-is.
The above would all run afoul of Eli's desire to use other programs to
read etc/NEWS as-is, though.
I'm afraid that straight quoting 'like this' is the simplest way out of
this mess. It is not a great solution, but it is the simplest and the
other approaches all have problems that may be worse. This is why the
patch I originally installed today used straight quoting. How about if
we simply go back to it? I.e., revert commit
4235d2d9eaa3b64d3172f6c60f1e71704795af89 and then move on.
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/15
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/15
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/16
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/16
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/16