Re: [Emacs-diffs] master c4151eb: Improve the optional translation of quotes

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 06/23/2015 08:36 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Yes, and we have that now.  The simplest way to use it is to use the
> same curved quotes in input as in output, but we can add more complex
> ways as needed.

It may look easiest, but I wouldn't call it "simplest". It would be 
better to have a clear separation between the input and output. If you 
don't like the `' quotes so much, why not borrow a quoting method from 
some other popular markup language, like tildes from org?

For the other options, see "fixed width text" in 
http://hyperpolyglot.org/lightweight-markup.

> Of course.  Font-lock is pretty much independent of the quoting
> mechanism that docstrings use.

That's not true. For better results, font-lock will need to handle the 
escaping and quote conversion.

Otherwise, it won't know whether a given character was escaped in the 
docstring, or was present there verbatim.

>  For example, if we decide to support
> only backslash escapes to quote in docstrings (yuck!), we could get that
> to work with font-lock; or if we decide to support only curved quotes to
> quote in docstrings (too aggressive, if you ask me), we could get that
> to work with font-lock too.
>
> When I tried font-lock mode in this area I came away baffled (see
> Bug#20385 Message#289, and Bug#20613), so I don't know how well it'd
> really work in practice for this problem.  It is a poorly documented
> area, unfortunately.

I gave you a recipe for a fix in 
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=20385#292, and it worked 
fine for me locally. (I thought I've also sent a patch, but apparently not).

So if you had trouble applying that, maybe you should've asked for the 
proper patch instead of rushing the other way.