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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Martin Blais <blais@furius.ca>, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:53:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <854pikajwb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IPj9g-0003Zm-8v@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 27 Aug 2007 14\:17\:40 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I fail to see how Quail can be used to do what smartquotes.el does.
>
> It ought to be able to translate sequences of periods and hyphens
> into other text.  And it could have another similar mechanism for
> entering the various kinds of quotations.
>
> I am not saying I am sure this is better than your approach.  But it
> has the advantage of being more coherent with the rest of Emacs,
> i.e., not being another ad hoc feature.  We should not adopt the ad
> hoc approach without giving this one a try too.

I think this might need a way to have several Quail methods active at
once.  I have considered using Quail for some things in AUCTeX, but
not being able to use other input methods at the same time is a
showstopper.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-27 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-26 22:47 ` smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents Richard Stallman
2007-08-27  4:46   ` Martin Blais
     [not found]     ` <E1IPj9g-0003Zm-8v@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-08-27 18:53       ` David Kastrup [this message]
     [not found]         ` <E1IQ3Hl-0008FI-LE@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-08-30  8:12           ` Kenichi Handa
2007-08-30  8:29             ` David Kastrup
2007-08-30 11:46               ` Kenichi Handa
2007-08-30 12:32                 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-31  7:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-31  7:35             ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-04  6:48               ` Kenichi Handa
2007-08-27  5:08   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-27 21:16     ` Composition of Quail IMs (was: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents) Stefan Monnier

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