From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 18:04:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E8618A.2000009@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8u8npnx0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 09/03/2015 05:50 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> That's why he's recommending a command. You'd first yank and then (if
> you needed) run the quote command, which quotes what you just yanked.
> That's would be kind of like a "postfix argument".
Ok.
> It's been supported for ages, yes, but until recently it was *very*
> rarely needed. IOW the need to write
>
> (add-hook \\='find-file-hook \\='auto-insert)
>
> is brand new in Emacs-25, and it sucks.
Note that you also wouldn't need it here if quote-matching code uses
sorward-sexp.
> BTW, re-using existing quoting syntaxes from other systems (e.g.
> markdown/org) is a good idea, when applicable. E.g. it would be
> desirable to be able to take a docstring and easily convert it to
> a valid org/markdown document.
True.
> > Either way, it would be weird to quote symbol references with ` ',
but use
>> `` `` for code expressions.
>
> I don't see why.
For consistency, I'd say. Otherwise we probably risk more typos.
Admittedly, I'm just guessing, but `` '' also looks a bit nicer to me.
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[not found] ` <E1ZWIKb-0007FR-Kk@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31 6:26 ` [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:39 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 6:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:53 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 7:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 7:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 1:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 1:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 5:19 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 5:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:40 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 16:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 15:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 18:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 21:50 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 22:47 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-07 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1ZWIKd-0007Fs-15@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31 6:29 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 6:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 7:35 ` David Kastrup
2015-08-31 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 1:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-01 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 6:29 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 10:45 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 10:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-01 11:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 11:40 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 11:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 12:06 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 14:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 10:16 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-03 11:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-03 15:04 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2015-09-01 13:31 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 14:15 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 5:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 10:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 11:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 15:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 15:37 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-03 17:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 16:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 17:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 22:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 10:48 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 12:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-03 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-02 22:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 12:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-03 14:56 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-04 13:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-07 1:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 2:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 5:23 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 11:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 11:52 ` Quoting yank/diff prefixes (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim) David Kastrup
2015-09-03 14:34 ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 0:03 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 1:20 ` Paul Eggert
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