Re: German quotation marks?

[Michael Maurer]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 14:14, Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
>
> Michael Maurer <maurer.michael@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > When I'm writing in German, I need to quote like „Test“ instead of
> > "Test". Any way to accomplish this in Emacs? Tried googling "German
> > quotation marks", but that's probably not the right way to describe
> > it.
>
> One way to make it easier in Emacs is Electric Quote mode
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Quotation-Marks.html):
> With (taken from
> https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/k73ihb/german_quotation_marks_in_orgmode/):
>
> | (setq electric-quote-replace-double t
> |       electric-quote-chars '(8216 8217 8222 8220))
>
> one can type "Test" and get „Test“.
>
> (Personally, on Linux I use the Compose key (Compose, ",",
> '"' and Compose, "<", '"’) for quotation marks as this works
> everywhere, i. e. also in the shell, etc.)
>
> Tim

Yeah I'm also on Linux, didn't know I could use the Compose key that
way. Very helpful, ty!