From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:06:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2x30za6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <20150423121109.13291.qmail@mail.muc.de> <83mw1z10qk.fsf@gnu.org> <20150423124503.GA5188@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429794449 24769 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 13:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 15:07:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqW-0006vd-1q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:07:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqV-0008PU-EJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqS-0008PP-Jn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqM-0006JI-Ox for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47455) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqM-0006IM-N3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:07:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGqM-0003lc-4z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:07:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20385 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20385-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20385.142979440914462 (code B ref 20385); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:07:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 13:06:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37231 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGq8-0003lB-TK for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:60515) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlGq6-0003ky-O7 for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NN900200GG3AZ00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:08:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NN900OCJGHQV220@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:08:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150423124503.GA5188@acm.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101927 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:45:03 +0000 > Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > It doesn't work at all well in my terminal (a Linux virtual tty). > > > Whatever these characters are, they are displayed as inverse question > > > marks. > > > In Emacs or in the stand-alone Info reader? > > In Emacs. We can easily fix that, e.g. by using a display table in Info and *Help* buffers. > I haven't yet tried it in the stand-alone Info reader. The next version of Texinfo's Info reader will use ASCII replacements on text terminals that cannot display these (and other) characters. Of course, the search issue still remains, you will have to use "C-x 8 RET", unless we provide commands to insert these characters directly.