From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:08:28 +0200 Message-ID: <853ay5bm43.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188194115 31117 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2007 05:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Martin Blais , emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 07:55:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPXZA-000229-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPXZ9-0001aY-OD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPXYQ-0000iW-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPXYP-0000hD-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPXYO-0000gz-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPXYK-0005oy-Ge; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.28]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E10278EAD; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:54:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-11-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3945345BF1; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:54:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-038-115.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.38.115]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A109C36E861; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:54:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 625A31C4611A; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:08:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 26 Aug 2007 18\:47\:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77261 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > ;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes; > > ;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes; > > ;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional > ;; fourth dot resumes with a string of dots; > > ;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an > ;; ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of > ;; normal hyphens. > > I can see why it is useful, but we already have a similar facility: > Quail. What about using Quail for this? Can Quail support multiple input methods at once? Because it would be inconvenient to be able to use such a feature only when no other input method is used. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum