From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting? Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:28:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7cd07cb7-4d1d-45bf-8802-754209bacb9f@default> References: <<36f6e67e-45d9-4eca-8302-ad9a06d138f1@default>> <<83fv41v6fh.fsf@gnu.org>> <5681a732-5741-4f56-b3d7-cb1edb739d32@default> <55BEA291.70402@cs.ucla.edu> <9bae9bf5-76e5-4461-8544-0feb5469de91@default> <55BEB893.1070903@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438568931 22092 80.91.229.3 (3 Aug 2015 02:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 02:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 04:28:39 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 1ZM5UT-0002wy-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 04:28:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZM5US-0001QN-Qa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57557) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZM5UP-0001Pm-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZM5UK-0004Ze-5r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:46492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZM5UJ-0004XY-TT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 22:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t732SNbo015874 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 3 Aug 2015 02:28:25 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t732SNd6013075 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 3 Aug 2015 02:28:23 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t732SNGW024434; Mon, 3 Aug 2015 02:28:23 GMT In-Reply-To: <55BEB893.1070903@cs.ucla.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:188318 Archived-At: > > 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. >=20 > 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.