From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting?
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:14:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831tfkuz6k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec07a835-5027-4c33-a5b1-c8afc12a4a76@default>
> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > How about 'symbol-quoting-style'? Isn't that more accurate than
> > 'text-quoting-style'?
>
> Definitely. But this "quoting" is used not only for symbols but also
> for Lisp (and other language?) sexps generally. It is also used for
> key sequences. And I've seen other uses too - cross-refs, file names,
> or URLs, perhaps?
>
> `sexp-quoting-style' is better than `symbol-quoting-style' is (much!)
> better than `text-quoting-style', which is quite misleading.
"Symbol" is more general and its meaning more clear (at least to
newbies) than "sexp", IMO.
> What about just `quoting-style'?
Too general, and thus misleading, IMO.
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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
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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2015-08-03 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-08-03 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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