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: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:40 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <553927CC.5010901@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> <55389509.60100@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429809160 27716 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 17:12:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Drew Adams , Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 19:12:28 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 1YlKfj-0002lh-Ln for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:12:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfi-0004Zj-Rj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfV-0004FA-EB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfS-00052L-9D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48191) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfS-00052F-6V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfR-000182-On for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:12:01 -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 17:12:01 +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=B20385.14298091134321 (code B ref 20385); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 17:11:53 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37967 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfI-00017d-RV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:56901) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlKfG-00017P-TT for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FBFFA60012; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:44 -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 9j+7WM2pvt80; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B5BEA6000F; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:43 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: 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:101939 Archived-At: 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’.