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From: Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:54:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY24WUJ9rCeQov7KkMg1_JZT6g_qfna6CNmfH5jYs6fkFg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAdUY-JAt0Kn8r6zNFBT-okYw66hzWbhCWKpmEUBSU=SyGAqdw@mail.gmail.com>

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Looks like just like the double-angled quotation marks, there are also
single-angled quotation marks "› and ‹" '( http://unicodelookup.com/#angle
quotation/1 )

So does it make sense to bind them to >' and <'

So now we have ended up with

>> → ≫
>= → ≥
>" → »
>' → ›

<< → ≪
<= → ≤
<" → «
<' → ‹





--
Kaushal Modi

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
> wrote:

> 2015-05-11 16:40 GMT+01:00 Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>:
> > Consider also that there is the ≫ character (U+226B MUCH GREATER
> > THAN), which is semantically a better match for >>.
>
> Good point. Since «» are quotation marks they could instead be moved
> under <" and >". That's not as intuitive, but it's still easy to
> remember once you see it once.
> Also, most cases where a user types C-x 8 >>, they'll be looking for
> the ≫ and not the ». Not that » isn't used, it's just that (I think)
> most people who type » have it in their keyboard layout already.
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-11 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-11 13:22 C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥ Kaushal
2015-05-11 13:29 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 14:53   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 14:57     ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 15:08       ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-11 15:24       ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-11 15:40       ` Yuri Khan
2015-05-11 15:46         ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 16:27         ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-11 16:34           ` Rasmus
2015-05-11 16:54           ` Kaushal [this message]
2015-05-11 20:34           ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-05-11 22:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-11 22:33               ` C-x 8 shorthands for = and = Drew Adams
2015-05-12 14:14               ` C-x 8 shorthands for ≤ and ≥ Kaushal
2015-05-12 15:58                 ` Kaushal
2015-05-11 18:26     ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-05-11 19:41       ` Kaushal

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