Re: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> I've described the possible options in the previous message here of this
> subthread (in the second half):
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-06/msg00592.html

I'm afraid I don't understand those options.  I can't make heads or tails of 
what was suggested there.

How about if you pick a plausible option and give a realistic example showing 
(1) what the source code would be, (2) how the source code would be displayed, 
(3) what the *Help* buffer would be, (4) how the *Help* buffer would be 
displayed normally, and (5) how the *Help* buffer would be displayed if the user 
requests ASCII approximations.

You're objecting to a simple approach where (1) thru (4) are typically all the 
same and use curved quotes, and where (5) uses ASCII approximations.  I don't 
know what you're proposing in place of this.

> BTW, do you have an example we can easily refer to when testing the patches?

I don't think any single example will illustrate all the gotchas.  But how about 
if we start with the previously-mentioned example, e.g., type ‘C-h 
texinfo-format-verb’ after loading textmodes/texinfmt?