From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Single quotes in Info Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:54:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <05b3fe29-fb15-4686-ab6d-53e6f6643477@default> References: <<87twzhgk84.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl>> <<83lhksshdm.fsf@gnu.org> <9ee0c895-a178-40e1-b1c8-ed2b97071c6b@default>> <<838ugsrysw.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422114870 15176 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 15:54:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:54:30 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 16:54:30 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1YF32V-0002Ez-M4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:54:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF32V-0008Nc-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:54:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF32K-0008NJ-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF32J-0002PQ-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:54:12 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:42397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF32F-0002Of-Cd; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t0OFs5FU010062 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:54:05 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0OFs4Lu005206 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:54:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0005.oracle.com (abhmp0005.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0OFs3p3005194; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:54:04 GMT In-Reply-To: <<838ugsrysw.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102242 Archived-At: > > As I know you are aware, Eli, this return-to-the-source is not a > > real solution. (Ideally) Emacs users themselves should be able > > (somehow) to choose which chars are used for such display. > > Remaking Info should not be our only (i.e., final) answer, even > > if it is such today. >=20 > I was enumerating solutions that are available to the OP now. This > list is about helping users do whatever they want, not about telling > Emacs developers what future features they should work on ;-) My message was an endorsement reply to your own development-oriented statement: ez> Anyway, we should revive bug #13131, and provide an easier ez> solution for this particular issue. And I think it does not hurt users to be reminded that curly quotes are not as easy to type as straight quotes (with many/most keyboards), and that Info is about things like search and not only about display. Thanks to Marcin for reminding us all. It is perfectly legitimate to discuss possible new features on this list, as well as current limitations & possible workarounds.