Re: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/25/2015 05:59 PM, Oleh Krehel wrote:

> It seems that even though many conservative people disagree, the
> "experiment" isn't going away.
>
> So I'm proposing the following change that could satisfy both Paul and
> the conservatives (myself included):

I'm not sure it'll satisfy Paul, because he seems intent on introducing 
actual curly quotes in the Elisp source code. Myself, I'd very much 
prefer this approach.

> (font-lock-add-keywords
>   'emacs-lisp-mode
>   '(("\\(`\\)\\([a-zA-Z-0-9]+\\)\\('\\)"
>      (0
>       (compose-region
>        (match-beginning 1)
>        (match-end 1)
>        "‘"))
>      (0
>       (compose-region
>        (match-beginning 3)
>        (match-end 3)
>        "’")))))

Otherwise, this looks pretty close to the proposed font-lock-only 
solution in 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-06/msg00547.html

And yes, we can add similar font-lock rules in emacs-lisp-mode buffers, 
but they'll have to handle escaped quotes a bit differently (do not hide 
the escaping chars).