Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents

["Martin Blais" <blais@furius.ca>]

On 8/26/07, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>     ;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes;
>
>     ;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes;
>
>     ;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional
>     ;;   fourth dot resumes with a string of dots;
>
>     ;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an
>     ;;   ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of
>     ;;   normal hyphens.
>
> I can see why it is useful, but we already have a similar facility:
> Quail.  What about using Quail for this?

Hi Richard

I fail to see how Quail can be used to do what smartquotes.el does.

1. I need special bindings for the fancy quotes and double quotes
2. I'm modifying the meanings of . and - (I don't know how to do this
with Quail)

Sometimes it takes less effort to write something simple for yourself
than to learn something more complex. In this case, I simply did not
remember or know Quail enough to check it out first (I will).

Bisous,



PS I still did not find time to clean up rst.el to send you the final
version for inclusion...  it's still on my list.