From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 20707@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:50:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <556CA97C.8070807@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150601171723.GB16298@acm.fritz.box>
On 06/01/2015 10:17 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> how do you type that left curly quote.
In the new Electric Quote minor mode you can type just ` for the typical
case. Outside Electric Quote, you can type C-x 8 ` (or A-` if your Alt
key is working). Except for A-` this all should work on any keyboard.
You don't need to memorize a 4 digit hex value (I can never remember it
myself).
> However, searching for the ASCII back tick (correctly) fails to find
> it. This is disconcerting.
It may be disconcerting at first, but it's easy to get used to and it
has advantages, e.g., it provides finer-grained control over searching.
Where I want to find a left single quote of either style, I can do a
regexp search for "[`‘]" but in interactive usage this is rare, at least
for me.
> I use the Linux virtual terminal: $TERM = linux consolefont="lat1-16"
> It doesn't handle UTF-8, because I never put in the effort to make it
> do so.
According to <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UTF-8#The_system_console> it
should work if you have sys-apps/baselayout
<http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/baselayout> 1.11.9 or
higher installed, have unicode="yes" in /etc/rc.conf, and specify e.g.
keymap="uk" in /etc/conf.d/keymaps. The console font lat9w-16 seems to
be reasonably popular, so you might try that. UTF-8 works out of the box
in Ubuntu and Fedora on the system console; I don't use Gentoo but it
shouldn't be a lot of trouble to get it to work there too.
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 7:39 bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <mailman.4052.1433144480.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-01 10:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-01 16:01 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 17:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-01 18:50 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-06-02 11:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-02 13:25 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-02 15:39 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-02 15:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-02 20:05 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-02 17:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-02 20:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-04 15:43 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-06 15:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-06 18:11 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-06 20:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-07 0:09 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-08 17:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 6:53 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-09 13:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 20:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-09 22:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-09 23:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 13:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-10 16:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-10 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-10 19:17 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-10 19:44 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-11 19:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-12 2:41 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-12 11:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-12 23:46 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-13 11:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-13 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-07 13:17 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-06-09 16:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-02 23:26 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2015-06-01 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01 21:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-09 19:44 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-06-11 13:06 ` bug#20707: " Andy Moreton
2020-08-12 13:02 ` bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] " Lars Ingebrigtsen
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