From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:49:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83eg56m9jd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874m631qwx.fsf@xi.bootis> <8337lnbhc4.fsf@gnu.org> <83vayj9xvq.fsf@gnu.org> <397279d3-e957-d117-b578-737caa1e3c56@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472579465 19906 195.159.176.226 (30 Aug 2016 17:51:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 30 19:50:54 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1benBV-0003ti-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:50:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1benBR-0002Pi-KE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1benAk-0002O8-Kh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1benAf-0006ci-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1benAf-0006cd-JH; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:50:01 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1992 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1benAb-0006Dq-Ib; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:50:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <397279d3-e957-d117-b578-737caa1e3c56@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:38:44 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206980 Archived-At: > Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:38:44 -0700 > > > The former, mostly, AFAIK. Sometimes I see “this” (in the logical > > order), but never „this“. Wikipedia says „this”, but it's wrong > > Yes, and it's amusing that Wikipedia cites a source[1] that agrees with you! I guess that's another indication that Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt. > Rambling a bit: it might be nice to have a Hebrew-oriented mode that makes it > easy to type proper gershayim instead of " for the users who are picky about > gershayim (are there any?). This is probably beyond the scope of electric-quote, > though. Such usage is very rare IME. Most people don't even know that character exists. It is not a quoting character, however. You will see that I used it in TUTORIAL.he, but mainly because it avoids the mixed directionality problem, and I started using it after someone pointed me to it.