From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable electric quotes in the Emacs codebase.
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:34:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o98x3593.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <319850cc-c0bb-513e-0b6e-2fd26f499d23@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800)
> Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phst@google.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Paul, can you tell in which files you find electric quote mode
> > helpful?
>
> Random text files other than .el, .c, .texi. This includes ChangeLog files,
> notes, and so forth. Even in .el and .c files I often prefer electric quote mode
> for comments, and for strings in the occasional files that deal with quotes
> themeselves.
It's problematic to use these in C files, since we don't necessarily
visit them with UTF-8. No such problems in .el files, where we should
only avoid doing that in strings, to avoid breaking related features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-03 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-02 21:21 [PATCH] Disable electric quotes in the Emacs codebase Philipp Stephani
2019-01-02 21:58 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-02 22:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-01-03 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-03 19:14 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-03 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-01-06 0:40 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-01-06 2:12 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-06 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-06 21:34 ` Philipp Stephani
2019-01-06 21:58 ` [PATCH] Disable electric quotes for most files " Philipp Stephani
2019-01-09 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-01-15 0:40 ` Philipp Stephani
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