From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting? Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:14:27 +0300 Message-ID: <831tfkuz6k.fsf@gnu.org> References: <36f6e67e-45d9-4eca-8302-ad9a06d138f1@default> <83fv41v6fh.fsf@gnu.org> <5681a732-5741-4f56-b3d7-cb1edb739d32@default> <55BEA291.70402@cs.ucla.edu> <83a8u8v1zk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438618506 18591 80.91.229.3 (3 Aug 2015 16:15:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 18:14:57 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 1ZMIO5-0001ja-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:14:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59808 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMIO4-0002m0-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:14:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMINy-0002lt-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:14:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMINt-0005pq-Cn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:48517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZMINt-0005pb-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NSI00B00L358J00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:14:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NSI007FLL3VJC30@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:14:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:188353 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > 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.