Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Drew Adams wrote:
> Presumably the final wording will make clear that, per the doc
> string, this mode is only about "replacing [classic quoting]
> with [curly-quoting] _as you type_".

Thanks, done in master with the attached patch.

> (This should not be only under a `substitute-command-keys' entry.)

Also done with the attached patch.

> that option has no effect on the quotation style used in the manuals.

Correct.  Display of info files is unaffected by the changes in Emacs master 
over the past month or two.  Info files use curved quotes as of Emacs 24.5, due 
to a 2013 change in Texinfo, not in Emacs.

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From 726bf1239d9fadf9e808394831e9a5059f8460fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:19:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Clarify text-quoting-style and
 electric-quote-mode.

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 etc/NEWS | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 90a13b7..fd2ed4d 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ successive char insertions.
 ** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
 € № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥.  As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
 
-** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”.
+** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
+as you type.
 
 ** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
 
@@ -910,8 +911,16 @@ denied" instead of "permission denied".  The old behavior was problematic
 in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
 
 +++
+** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
+Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
+for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
+and apostrophe `like this'.  The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
+if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
+Quotes in info files are not translated.
+
++++
 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
-That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
+That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
 value of ‘text-quoting-style’.  Doc strings in source code can use
 either curved quotes or grave accent and apostrophe.  As before,
 isolated apostrophes and characters preceded by \= are output as-is.
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