Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes

[Stefan Monnier]

> The fact that everybody uses " and ' and ` is a historical artifact, a
> workaround of sorts, due to the limitations of the mechanical
> typewriter. We need not be affected by it any more.

The limitation of "number of keys on a keyboard" along with the
limitations of the human brain mean that it's still very convenient for
users to be able to just use " and ' rather than having umpteen
subvariants and needing to remember which to use where and how to type
them in.


        Stefan