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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:10:49 +0900 |
Paul Eggert writes:
> On 01/20/2012 05:13 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> > maybe it would be nicer to have %` and %' for
> > open/close quote instead
As Jim Cloos pointed out, we (at least he and I ;-) want to move in
the direction of semantic markup. Also, I can just see people abusing
the one-sided quotes to get a "pretty" apostrophe.
> I had thought of that, but %' already has a different
> meaning with POSIX printf (it inserts thousands grouping
> characters when formatting numbers), and we might want to
> implement that in Emacs someday.
>
> We could use some other combinations, e.g., %< and %>
> (they kinda look like French quote marks). It's possible
> to support both,
You're getting carried away. No thank you to multiple ways to do
something that's purely cosmetic.
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], (continued)
- Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated], Eli Zaretskii, 2012/01/21
- Re: quotation marks, Ulrich Mueller, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/20
- RE: quotation marks, Drew Adams, 2012/01/20
- Re: quotation marks, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/01/20
- 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 <=
- 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], Tom Tromey, 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, 2012/01/21
Re: TUTORIAL.de updated, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/19