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: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <557F2ECC.40201@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87mw01uj06.fsf@gmail.com> <877fr5t282.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1434398431 4470 80.91.229.3 (15 Jun 2015 20:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Oleh Krehel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 15 22:00:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Z4aYQ-000247-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 22:00:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aYP-0002Ys-56 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aYL-0002Yj-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aYI-0006m7-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:36819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z4aYI-0006jt-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BF4160812; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id RFK8sdj0opOn; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6903160814; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id JZIuh6N8C-z3; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C8923160812; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <877fr5t282.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:187199 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: > But we're still referring to a function argument `foo' as FOO in > docstrings, no? Yes, there's no proposal to change that. > is there something better for inserting single quotes as using > > M-x insert-char LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET > M-x insert-char RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET I typically use Electric Quote mode, and type ` and ' which is pretty easy. You can also type "C-x 8 [" and "C-x 8 ]". If your Alt key works you can also type "A-[" and "A-]". On my keyboard right now (Ubuntu 15.04) I can also type "Compose < '" and "Compose > '"; that's a Gnomeism, though, I believe.