From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:15:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> <55D2C080.2000806@cs.ucla.edu> <87wpwt5619.fsf@gnu.org> <55D36CB5.10803@cs.ucla.edu> <878u9879q9.fsf@igel.home> <19BD5D76-06A0-4FC0-A46F-760B2C27D321@gmail.com> <55D3FD94.5000309@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440111992 22505 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2015 23:06:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 21 01:06:19 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 1ZSYuY-0000wR-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:06:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSWEp-0007iW-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:15:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS7u5-0003Up-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS7u4-0007IQ-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:16:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:32806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS7u3-0007Hg-8X; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZS7u2-0001hg-Ol; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:15:58 -0400 In-reply-to: <55D3FD94.5000309@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:52:52 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:188985 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Couldn't we easily have a mode for use in Text mode, that turns ' into > > ‘ or ’ according to the context? (Maybe we already do.) > Yes we do, in Emacs master. It's Electric Quote mode. I had a vague memory we had that, but people were conversing as if it didn't exist. You can try it out by > putting this into your ~/.emacs file: Would someone like to ask the person who criticized us to try that and see if he finds Emacs better now that it has that feature? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.