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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, 20385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes in doc strings
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:48:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5556A205.3040503@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55568B3E.5040704@yandex.ru>

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> how about switching to Markdown-style quoting, then?
> That's definitely going to be familiar.

Familiar to those who know Markdown, yes.  However, English quoting is more 
familiar to English writers, and far more people know English than know both 
English and Markdown.

> will elisp-completion-at-point detect that point is inside the Hungarian quotes

It could easily do so, in a Hungarian locale.  The characters are programmable.

> that's... weird.

It's not weird.  It's ordinary English markup.  It's "weird" only to Emacs and 
TeX users accustomed to oddball quoting `like this' that exists mostly because 
of a historical accident.

> The end result, visually, would be the same.

We don't care only about what appears in Emacs after one types C-h.  Emacs is 
more than just a documentation viewer; it's a tool for editing documentation, 
and to those of us who write documentation (or who view Elisp source code, etc., 
etc.) what we see on the screen when we're editing is important.  (Otherwise 
we'd probably be editing SGML by hand, eeeyyyucckkk.)





  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-16  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 18:39 bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Paul Eggert
2015-04-20 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  0:18   ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21  0:53     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  1:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  1:30       ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21  1:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21  3:45       ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21 14:52         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:04           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 18:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:34               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 19:50                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 20:01                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-22  7:00                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-22 13:52                       ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 13:59                         ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-22 14:52                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 23:36                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  0:23                               ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23  6:45                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  9:14                                   ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 10:22                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 11:15                                       ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 17:32                                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 18:23                                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 19:38                                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 20:07                                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 20:12                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 23:24                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-24  0:24                                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  4:47                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 19:47                                           ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 19:57                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23  2:19                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23  6:45                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 14:51                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 15:32                                     ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 17:11                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 19:55                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23 20:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 20:13                           ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  6:11                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24  3:04                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-24  6:46                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 13:43                               ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-21 18:44             ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-21 20:30               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-22  0:49                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-22 23:37           ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23  6:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:35       ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 18:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:37           ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 19:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1406.1429745828.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:11   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 12:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 12:45       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 13:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1407.1429745888.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 19:42     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13  7:30 ` bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes " Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 12:16   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-13 15:13     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 22:33       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-14  3:24         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-14 10:49           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15  7:49             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 17:24               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 18:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 19:09                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 21:13                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 21:48                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 23:52                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16  0:08                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  0:11                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  1:48                             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-05-16  8:27                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-19 23:27                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-20  2:22                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21  7:21                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-21 10:01                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21 14:58                                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-22  3:41                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16  9:51                               ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-16  1:23                           ` Drew Adams
2015-05-16  6:20                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16  7:36                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14  7:10         ` bug#20385: missing charset for non-ASCII text/x-patch MIME parts in Thunderbird Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14  7:20         ` bug#20385: Support curved quotes in doc strings Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 14:55           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:05             ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 20:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:30                 ` Ivan Shmakov
     [not found]         ` <87h9rfiqh1.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net>
2015-05-14  8:28           ` bug#20385: missing charset for non-ASCII text/x-patch MIME parts in Thunderbird Stephen J. Turnbull
     [not found] <<1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
2015-04-20 20:16 ` bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <<jwvtwwabnhp.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]     ` <<jwvvbgqs2ud.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]         ` <<83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<jwvk2x59x4g.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]             ` <<83vbgp49ve.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]               ` <<jwv8udl9syp.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
     [not found]                 ` <<83pp6x45x5.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                   ` <<5536ACB3.9040707@yandex.ru>
     [not found]                     ` <<83lhhk4phe.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                       ` <<fe3d90cd-056a-49a6-a049-6df07e710663@default>
     [not found]                         ` <<87a8y0jmba.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                           ` <<6837d058-ba18-461b-8af6-2c4e6d767348@default>
     [not found]                             ` <<55383081.4010106@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                               ` <<87a8xzae0o.fsf@petton.fr>
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     [not found]                                   ` <<878udj9pfq.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                                     ` <<5538C7EC.9010105@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                       ` <<877ft39juq.fsf@petton.fr>
     [not found]                                         ` <<55392C91.1010300@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                           ` <<84f4aea9-c3ef-44c5-ac06-0df72d223e8c@default>
     [not found]                                             ` <<55394A2E.8020002@cs.ucla.edu>
     [not found]                                               ` <<f978526c-c5e3-405d-ae75-63b9ed5d4537@default>
     [not found]                                                 ` <<83lhhizjqw.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 20:15                                                   ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24  6:12                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <<55394E30.8040307@yandex.ru>
     [not found]                         ` <<83oamezk77.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]                           ` <<4b159230-cd7e-4cb9-a778-3ad7ed2ae301@default>
     [not found]                             ` <<83k2x2ys1b.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-04-24 14:11                               ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 14:40                                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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