From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:34:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87pp4wjh51.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87mw01uj06.fsf@gmail.com> <877fr5t282.fsf@gnu.org> <557F2ECC.40201@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434436493 11692 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2015 06:34:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 06:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oleh Krehel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 16 08:34:44 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4kSJ-0000Fn-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:34:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4kSI-00016V-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4kSF-00016P-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:34:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4kSC-0000qB-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:34:39 -0400 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:38140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4kSB-0000q6-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p (dhcp196.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EC811A82EC; Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:34:35 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , Oleh Krehel , emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <557F2ECC.40201@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187205 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: >> But we're still referring to a function argument `foo' as FOO in >> docstrings, no? > > Yes, there's no proposal to change that. I was just wondering because the quoted text said to quote lisp symbols with single quotes, and parameters are lisp symbols, too, or arent they? >> is there something better for inserting single quotes as using >> >> M-x insert-char LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET >> M-x insert-char RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET > > I typically use Electric Quote mode, and type ` and ' which is pretty > easy. I just did `M-x electric-quote-mode RET' and `electric-quote-paragraph' is t, and still nothing is rewritten. Ah, it seems it's only active for modes deriving from text-mode which message-mode apparently doesn't do... > You can also type "C-x 8 [" and "C-x 8 ]". That works. > If your Alt key works you can also type "A-[" and "A-]". What does "Alt key works" mean? Alt is Meta here, so typing Alt-AltGr-( says M-[ is undefined. Bye, Tassilo