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: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83fwfa50oq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120118.161204.348826368.wl@gnu.org> <20248.15413.907023.894588@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4x1uqv4pbx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <056566D61BA5441E860782777E736F44@us.oracle.com> <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327042133 9909 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2012 06:48:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 20 07:48:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro8HI-0003NI-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:48:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro8HH-00039m-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39496) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro8HB-00032s-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro8HA-0000E3-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:48350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ro8H9-0000De-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LY300800480YA00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:38 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.115.9]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LY3008GP491A3D0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:38 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:147757 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:08:26 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > Cc: 'Ulrich Mueller' , emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > On 01/19/12 09:22, Drew Adams wrote: > > `...' is an Emacs doc & UI convention, not simply a "coding stand= ard". >=20 > For user interfaces it would be better if Emacs quoted > =93like this=94 or =91like this=92 (i.e., using directed > quote marks) in the typical case where these quote marks > are supported. Before we go that way, we will need to make sure the closing quote mark behaves like ' does, wrt syntax (and thus word-level cursor movement commands). Currently it doesn't.