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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
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Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:19:27 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:21 -0800 Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
PE> On 01/20/2012 05:13 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> maybe it would be nicer to have %` and %' for
>> open/close quote instead
PE> I had thought of that, but %' already has a different
PE> meaning with POSIX printf (it inserts thousands grouping
PE> characters when formatting numbers), and we might want to
PE> implement that in Emacs someday.
PE> We could use some other combinations, e.g., %< and %>
PE> (they kinda look like French quote marks). It's possible
PE> to support both, that is, one could either write this:
PE> (format "Cannot open file %`s for reading" "foo.c")
PE> or this:
PE> (format "Cannot open file %<%s%> for reading" "foo.c")
That would be nice.
Ted
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- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], James Cloos, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stefan Monnier, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Paul Eggert, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Andreas Schwab, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated],
Ted Zlatanov <=
Re: TUTORIAL.de updated, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/19