From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:44:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337lnbhc4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecb06626-7437-718d-a051-d12c35919d01@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:30:30 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote:
> > Well I think we'd rather not do that but improve the docstring instead,
> > because, looking at the big summary table on the page you linked [1]
> > there's not only a lot of variance among languages, but some of them
> > have multiple standard and alternative forms, and some don't have single
> > quotes (e.g. Persian).
>
> I tend to agree. Quoting styles are controversial in many languages. This is
> true even aside from choice of quote characters. For example in French « is
> widely agreed to be the left quote, but some follow it with a quarter-em space,
> some with a non-breaking space, some with an ordinary space, and some with no
> space at all.
Then how about giving the various alternatives language-neutral names?
The important aspect, IMO, is to try to let the users select the
alternative they like without having to know how to type the quote
characters, something many users might find difficult. If there are
no pre-cooked alternatives for them to choose from, they will actually
have to type each character, and as a Lisp list on top of that. Don't
you think this is sub-optimal?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-29 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-27 14:22 [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-27 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-27 15:23 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-27 19:16 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-28 1:00 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 1:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 5:28 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 6:14 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-05 18:53 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-05 19:06 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-06 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-06 21:31 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-07 18:33 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-10 3:57 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-13 18:28 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-13 18:35 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-22 14:00 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-23 10:25 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-23 15:09 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-10-27 15:12 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-27 17:21 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 15:54 ` Yuri Khan
2016-08-29 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 16:27 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-29 17:19 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-08-29 18:43 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-30 17:38 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-30 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-31 11:08 ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-01 18:56 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-09-01 19:15 ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-01 21:13 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-09-01 21:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-02 5:06 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-02 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-02 10:37 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-02 13:24 ` Göktuğ Kayaalp
2016-08-29 16:15 ` tarball builds (was: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars) Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-30 15:53 ` tarball builds Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 15:59 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-30 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-08-30 17:58 ` Paul Eggert
2016-08-29 2:33 ` [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Eli Zaretskii
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