From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting?
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:28:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cd07cb7-4d1d-45bf-8802-754209bacb9f@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55BEB893.1070903@cs.ucla.edu>
> > You can't have "left quote character" mean both a Unicode
> > left quote character and, in effect, a character variable
> > whose value can be any of several characters, some of which
> > are not, by name, quote chars.
>
> It means the latter. The former wouldn't make any sense, as there is no
> single Unicode "left quote character".
You are playing word games. You are the first to say that
` and ' are not, in any sense, quote characters. There may
be multiple Unicode left quote characters, but ` is not
one of them, just as ' is not one of the Unicode right quote
chars.
The description is not clear. That's the point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-03 2:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <<83fv41v6fh.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-02 21:47 ` how to turn off automatic curly-quoting? Drew Adams
2015-08-02 23:06 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-02 23:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-08-03 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 0:02 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-03 0:40 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 2:28 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-08-03 5:11 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-03 16:49 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-03 18:59 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 19:33 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-03 21:06 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-03 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<55BEA291.70402@cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <<83a8u8v1zk.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-08-03 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-03 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-02 17:18 Drew Adams
2015-08-02 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-02 19:46 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-02 20:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-02 20:26 ` Paul Eggert
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