From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20707@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:07:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150602170724.GA2567@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556DCE36.9070505@cs.ucla.edu>
Hello, Paul.
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 08:39:34AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > What I really meant with my question is how do you type curly characters
> > when outwith Emacs? Say, inside of less, or at a bash shell prompt, or
> > in any of numerous other tools one might wish to use?
> It doesn't come up that often, but for 'less' I am typically searching and
> searching for '.' will do -- I sometimes do that even for ASCII-only searches,
> as '.' is easier to type than, say, '\'. I typically run Bash under Emacs where
> it's not a problem there either.
> In the rarer cases where I'm outside Emacs or want to search just for curved
> quotes and nothing else, I can type Compose < ' and Compose > ' to get curved
> single quotes. On my current keyboard, the Compose key looks like a menu and is
> just to the right of the right Alt key; this is the default setup that came with
> Ubuntu 15.04. I'm sure one can get the Compose key to work on the Linux console
> too, as plenty of people need to type accented letters on the Linux console.
There appears to be provision for a compose key in the Linux terminal,
yes; it's partially documented in man loadkeys.
> > it's yet another trivial annoyance that one has to heep onto all
> Heh. Trivial annoyances are what motivated this change. I've been trivially
> annoyed at Emacs quoting `like this' for at least a decade. Nearly every other
> GNU package has fixed it. I was hoping Somebody Else would fix it for Emacs,
> but nobody ever stepped up so here we are.
You're breaking things. Right now, Emacs works in "any" environment, and
I think this was a positive design decision way back when. You're now
changing Emacs so that its proper working is restricted to UTF-8
environemnts, which is fine for you because you run under such.
As I've suggested before, why don't you make --with-curly-quotes a
configuration option?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 7:39 bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <mailman.4052.1433144480.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-01 10:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-01 16:01 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 17:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-01 18:50 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-02 11:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-02 13:25 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-02 15:39 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-02 15:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-02 20:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-02 17:07 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-06-02 20:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-04 15:43 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-06 15:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-06 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-06 20:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-07 0:09 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-08 17:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 6:53 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-09 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 20:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-09 22:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 23:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 13:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-10 16:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-10 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 19:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-10 19:44 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-11 19:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-12 2:41 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-12 11:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-12 23:46 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-13 11:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-13 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-07 13:17 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-06-09 16:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-02 23:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-01 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-09 19:44 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-06-11 13:06 ` bug#20707: " Andy Moreton
2020-08-12 13:02 ` bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Lars Ingebrigtsen
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