From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: 23 Apr 2015 12:11:09 -0000 Organization: muc.de e.V. Message-ID: <20150423121109.13291.qmail@mail.muc.de> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429791148 31861 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 12:12:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:12:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert To: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 14:12:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1YlFzI-0008I5-BG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:12:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFzH-0007VT-Dh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFzD-0007TW-Uc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:12:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFz8-0006nu-Vn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFz8-0006nq-TA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFz8-0002Va-GR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:12:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20385 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20385-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20385.14297910729581 (code B ref 20385); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 12:11:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37198 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFyK-0002UT-1N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:13518 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlFyI-0002UL-Bv for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 13292 invoked by uid 3782); 23 Apr 2015 12:11:09 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug User-Agent: tin/2.2.0-20131224 ("Lochindaal") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE (amd64)) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101923 Archived-At: In article you wrote: > Drew Adams wrote: >> If Emacs at some point decides to switch to another code-quoting >> mechanism, that's one thing. But what it definitely should NOT do, >> IMO, is to lose code quoting > Yes, that makes sense. The latest iteration of the proposal does that, by > suggesting that doc strings use curved single quotes ?like-this? to quote code. > This mechanism is already used in the Emacs 24.5 info files, and it works well > there. It doesn't work at all well in my terminal (a Linux virtual tty). Whatever these characters are, they are displayed as inverse question marks. I'm not in favour of proliferating these characters over our code as well. How do you type them? How do you search for them? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).