From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: text-quoting-style
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:25:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828172501.GB4882@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh9njs7hf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Hello, Stefan.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:42:37PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Eli says:
> > For users who don't want the Unicode characters, even though their
> > display can show them. Given the controversy, I think this is
> > justified.
> David says:
> > Display table tricks will not help with copy&paste to external
> > applications and with files processed by any program rather than Emacs.
> Paul says:
> > As I understand it, Alan introduced text-quoting-style because he did not
> > want curved quotes in any buffer or string, even curved quotes displayed as
> > grave accent and apostrophe.
This is abolutely correct. :-)
> IIUC, all these are guesses or hypothetical needs. So it looks like
> there is no really good reason for that config variable.
Paul's assertion I have just confirmed. Unless I've missed or
misunderstood some development in the last two months or so, the need for
`text-quoting-style' still exists: if we're going to be doing clever
things to make ` and ' get converted, or appear to get converted, into
curly quotes, then a user must be able to enable/disable this conversion.
> At the very least it should not be a Custom var.
How could it be sensible not being a custom variable? It's for user
customisation.
> And unless someone comes up with a better, first-hand reason, we should
> get rid of it.
The reason for its existence still holds. Or is there some other
mechanism which achieves the same thing?
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-28 2:03 text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28 5:22 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-08-28 7:06 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 7:37 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 7:54 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 8:42 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 14:39 ` text-quoting-style Yuri Khan
2015-08-28 14:49 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:00 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:31 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:39 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:48 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 7:29 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 16:42 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28 17:25 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-08-28 17:48 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 18:28 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-29 14:54 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-29 15:59 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-30 1:59 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-30 13:16 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 1:30 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 6:29 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 20:13 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 21:29 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 12:47 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 16:27 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:07 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 18:35 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 23:58 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 9:09 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 15:13 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:44 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-01 19:08 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 13:46 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 16:28 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:08 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 17:34 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:30 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 0:07 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 0:27 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 15:35 ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-08-31 20:01 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 3:31 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 9:28 ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 10:53 ` text-quoting-style Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 13:03 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 16:46 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 20:41 ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-01 23:47 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 0:18 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 0:35 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 0:53 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 6:57 ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-02 15:17 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:36 ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41 ` text-quoting-style Bastien Guerry
2015-09-01 22:55 ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 9:05 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 16:10 ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-08-31 17:31 ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 19:34 ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-09-03 15:29 ` text-quoting-style raman
2015-08-31 6:15 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
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