From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:21 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F1A143D.8090603@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20120118.161204.348826368.wl@gnu.org> <20248.15413.907023.894588@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4x1uqv4pbx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <056566D61BA5441E860782777E736F44@us.oracle.com> <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> <4F19EBE7.4010902@cs.ucla.edu> <878vl1amcv.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327109191 949 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2012 01:26:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:26:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 21 02:26:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RoPit-00061G-MN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:26:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoPis-0003wz-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38760) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoPiq-0003wh-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoPio-00055S-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:54358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoPio-00055F-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C01A60008 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:21 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id hSan8wdf39jU for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1A3DA60007 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:20 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <878vl1amcv.fsf@lifelogs.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147799 Archived-At: On 01/20/2012 05:13 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > maybe it would be nicer to have %` and %' for > open/close quote instead I had thought of that, but %' already has a different meaning with POSIX printf (it inserts thousands grouping characters when formatting numbers), and we might want to implement that in Emacs someday. We could use some other combinations, e.g., %< and %> (they kinda look like French quote marks). It's possible to support both, that is, one could either write this: (format "Cannot open file %`s for reading" "foo.c") or this: (format "Cannot open file %<%s%> for reading" "foo.c")