From: raman@google.com (T.V Raman)
To: eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, jwiegley@gmail.com, eliz@gnu.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:07:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22100.64468.403695.483324@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5654FB0B.4090702@cs.ucla.edu>
This is much better -- me going away happy. Thanks Paul!
Paul Eggert writes:
> On 11/24/2015 03:38 PM, T.V Raman wrote:
> > I'll attach the*help* buffer text as it shows in my running Emacs-25
> > session so we are all talking of the same thing.
>
> The current emacs-25 should show a slightly different help buffer.
> Assuming your (setq text-quoting-style 'grave), the help buffer should
> look like this:
>
>
> text-quoting-style is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is grave
>
> Documentation:
> Style to use for single quotes in help and messages.
> Its value should be a symbol.
> `curve' means quote with curved single quotes ‘like this’.
> `straight' means quote with straight apostrophes 'like this'.
> `grave' means quote with grave accent and apostrophe `like this'.
> The default value nil acts like `curve' if curved single quotes are
> displayable, and like `grave' otherwise.
>
> [back]
>
>
> I didn't quite follow your email, but are you suggesting that the second
> line should look like this instead?
>
>
> Its value is `grave'
>
>
> and that would suffice to fix the problem that you see? If so, this
> should be easy to arrange.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-25 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 23:40 Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? T.V Raman
2015-11-24 0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-24 0:25 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 3:44 ` raman
2015-11-24 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 16:21 ` raman
2015-11-24 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 23:17 ` John Wiegley
2015-11-24 23:38 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25 0:07 ` T.V Raman [this message]
2015-11-25 0:10 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 18:10 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 18:21 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 2:18 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 3:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 5:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 18:07 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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