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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9d35bb8: Fix minor quoting problems in doc strings |
Date: | Thu, 21 May 2015 00:36:28 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
I think it's perfectly OK to start using curly-quotes in a few places, and to start adding support for curly-quotes (e.g. to make it easier to insert them, and to make*Help* buffer xrefs for them, to seamlessly downgrade them to simple quotes on non-utf-8 terminals, ...), and I think we should*also* add jit/font-lock support to display-upgrade `...' into curly-quotes in those cases we deem "obvious enough".
The master branch already supports downgrading to simple quotes. Support for *Help* buffer xrefs is in the draft patches in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20385#295>, a patchset I just now published; rather than font-locking this patchset substitutes characters, an approach that worked better for me.
The main thing on my todo list is the first item on your list: making it easier to insert curved quotes. This is Bug#20545, where the proposed patch <http://bugs.gnu.org/20545#5> needs a bit of hacking to get it to work well with electric-pair-mode. I plan to look into that soon. I'm thinking of renaming it to Electric Quote mode as "Electric Punct mode" may be a bit too ambitious.
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