Re: text-quoting-style

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

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Why do we need text-quoting-style?
> [ I understand that some terminals can't display those curly quotes, but
>    that should be handled by some kind of display-table trick.  ]

As I understand it, Alan introduced text-quoting-style because he did not want 
curved quotes in any buffer or string, even curved quotes displayed as grave 
accent and apostrophe.

It would simplify things somewhat to remove the text-quoting-style variable, and 
to have Emacs behave as it does now when text-quoting-style is nil: namely, 
generate curved quotes in buffers and strings if displayable, and generate grave 
accent and apostrophe otherwise.  That should suffice for Alan's preferences, as 
he can run Emacs in an environment where curved quotes aren't displayable, e.g., 
with LC_ALL=C in the environment.

It sounds like you may be thinking of something even simpler, though: namely, 
always generate curved quotes in strings and buffers, but display them as grave 
accent and apostrophe if curved quotes are not displayable.  I'd prefer that 
approach too, though I expect Alan would not (otherwise why introduce 
text-quoting-style?).