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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274852 Archived-At: --WrwOmbe1fv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <1a0f9230b74a6333e75e@heytings.org> >> FWIW, I too do not see why ` would be "ugly". I attach screenshots of= =20 >> what that character looks like in ten popular programming fonts; each=20 >> shows the nine (!) possible conventions, together with the Unicode=20 >> quotes. > > This shows that Unicode quotes consistently look good, while the others= =20 > look antiquated at best. The single apostrophes on both sides ('like=20 > this') is also okay, but still worse from a typographic standpoint. > Others might have a different opinion, depending on the font they use. >> What would perhaps be welcome is a user option to ask Emacs to display= =20 >> apostrophes as acutes in `foobar' (and possibly another option to ask=20 >> Emacs to use `=C2=B4 instead of =E2=80=98=E2=80=99 in messages, errors a= nd help buffers). > > Are you looking for `text-quoting-style'? > Not really. Part of what I suggest would be solved with another option to= =20 text-quoting-style. What we have no is =E2=80=98this=E2=80=99, 'this' and = `this'. What=20 we could add is `this=C2=B4. And the other part of what I suggest is to ha= ve,=20 say, a buffer-quoting-style option, which would have the same effect in=20 regular buffers as the text-quoting-style in help buffers. --WrwOmbe1fv--