From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:20 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55389500.8000404@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu> <5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu> <83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbgp49ve.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp6x45x5.fsf@gnu.org> <5536ACB3.9040707@yandex.ru> <83lhhk4phe.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8y0jmba.fsf@petton.fr> <6837d058-ba18-461b-8af6-2c4e6d767348@default> <55383081.4010106@cs.ucla.edu> <87a8xzae0o.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429771877 8009 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 06:51:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 08:51:07 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 1YlAyW-0005GK-Hm for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:51:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38446 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAyV-0003S5-Uj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAyR-0003S0-Ud for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAyN-0002MK-U3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:50:59 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAte-0000zr-Pp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAte-00004y-F6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:46:02 +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=B20385.142977153232717 (code B ref 20385); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 06:45:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37016 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAtA-0008Vc-CV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:45:32 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34419) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAt8-0008VO-AA for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 076CFA60010; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:23 -0700 (PDT) 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 XCtEu623HjvH; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3CE99A6000F; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: <87a8xzae0o.fsf@petton.fr> 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:101904 Archived-At: Nicolas Petton wrote: > I don't understand how this would better than using backquotes > `like-this` Quoting `like-this` still looks ugly, and still misuses grave accent in a way that's confusing for people not accustomed to the style. It's also harder to parse unambiguously than a matching pair of distinct quote characters. > - Isn't the curved single quote character *really* hard to type? Yes, and Stefan raised that point too. It should be reasonably easy to fix this (though I haven't coded it up yet). > - aren't curved single quotes only used to display code quotation > in compiled info files, not in .texinfo sources Yes, and partly because of this info-look.el now handles curved single quotes. These sorts of changes are inevitable (and shouldn't be that hard) when accommodating Emacs to common quoting styles.