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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:09:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DB4FC7.5050109@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8408881-dddb-4661-9e7f-6ec42d9bf5fa@default>

Drew Adams wrote:
> In that case, can Emacs please provide doc produced both ways, and
> let users choose the appearance they want?

That would make for more complexity and size in maintenance, distribution and 
installation, for little benefit to most users.

With either the old or the new info quoting styles you need to translate quotes 
when copying to StackExchange, so I suggest writing a bit of specialized Elisp 
code to translate these quotes exactly the way you like.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-24 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<a4c77735-a9de-400e-88f2-243c66e24836@default>
     [not found] ` <<83fv38hfsx.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 16:34   ` How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether? Drew Adams
2015-08-24 16:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-24 17:09     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-08-24 17:29       ` Drew Adams
2015-08-24 18:44         ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]   ` <<c8408881-dddb-4661-9e7f-6ec42d9bf5fa@default>
     [not found]     ` <<837fokhby1.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 17:06       ` Drew Adams
2015-08-24 17:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<c1f42565-e538-49e6-b246-07e43dab673a@default>
     [not found] ` <<834mjoha4r.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 17:57   ` Drew Adams
2015-08-24 18:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-24 18:36     ` David Kastrup
2015-08-24 21:44       ` Drew Adams
2015-08-25  4:25         ` David Kastrup
2015-08-24  4:16 Drew Adams
2015-08-24 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-24 15:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-24 17:06   ` Drew Adams

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