From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <553927CC.5010901@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c65c9ac4-238b-4923-8bb7-8aea393cd6bc@default>
On 04/23/2015 07:51 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
> Sacrificing being able to use two levels of quoting for ordinary
> text in favor of stealing one of them for code quoting
That's not what the Emacs info files do. They prefer American English
conventions for ordinary text, including quoting “like this” for
ordinary top-level text. And they prefer single quoting at the top
level ‘like-this’ for quoting code. There's no ambiguity in practice,
as ordinary quoted text does not quote code in the manuals. Emacs doc
strings are similar, so there won't be any ambiguity in practice there
either.
> No doubt we do have a similarly unmistakable tag for code quoting,
> in TexInfo.
Yes, it's @code{whatever}.
> That tag is transformed to `...' in Emacs Info.
No, @code{foo} is transformed to ‘foo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-20 18:39 bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Paul Eggert
2015-04-20 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 0:18 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21 0:53 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 1:30 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-21 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 3:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-21 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 18:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-21 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 20:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-22 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-22 13:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 13:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-22 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-22 23:36 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 0:23 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 9:14 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 10:22 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 11:15 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 17:32 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 19:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 20:07 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 23:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-24 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 4:47 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 19:47 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-23 19:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23 2:19 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 6:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 15:32 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-23 17:11 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-04-23 19:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-23 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 20:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 3:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-24 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-24 13:43 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-04-21 18:44 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-04-21 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-22 0:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-22 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2015-04-23 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 18:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 19:37 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-04-21 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1406.1429745828.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-23 12:45 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1407.1429745888.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-23 12:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-23 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 7:30 ` bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes " Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 12:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-13 15:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 22:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-14 3:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-14 10:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 7:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 17:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 18:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 19:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 21:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-15 21:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-15 23:52 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16 0:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16 0:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16 1:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16 8:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-19 23:27 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-20 2:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21 7:21 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-21 10:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-21 14:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-22 3:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-05-16 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-16 1:23 ` Drew Adams
2015-05-16 6:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 7:10 ` bug#20385: missing charset for non-ASCII text/x-patch MIME parts in Thunderbird Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 7:10 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 8:28 ` bug#20385: " Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-14 8:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-05-14 7:20 ` bug#20385: Support curved quotes in doc strings Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:05 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-05-14 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14 20:30 ` Ivan Shmakov
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2015-04-20 20:16 ` bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' " Drew Adams
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2015-04-23 20:15 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-04-24 14:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-04-24 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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