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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 19:38:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r3qkjuve.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555301BD.1040503@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 00:48:13 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>     Do we already have a way of displaying ‘..’ on terminals that cannot
>     display them (notably, some TTYs)?  If not, we should add that before
>     we install these changes, and those in bug #20385.  I don't think we
>     can let doc strings have glyphless characters.
> 
> I just now configured a terminal to refuse to display curved quotes, and when I used it Emacs displayed "‘like this’" as "\u2018like this\u2019" with underscores below the "\u2018" and the "\u2019".

Yes, that's what I see, too.

> I could easily change it to display it as "`like this'" with underscores under the "`" and the "'", if you think that'd be a win.

I think we should indeed display that `like this' (when the curved
quotes cannot be displayed), but do we really need the underscores?
What would be their purpose?

Thanks.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10 23:55 bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13  7:48   ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 13:10     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-13 14:49       ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 17:05         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14  3:52         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-05-14 14:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 16:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 16:38     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-05-13 16:56       ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-13 17:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-13 18:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-14  6:32           ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-16 21:20             ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-17 14:33               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-17 16:58                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-17 19:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-01  3:06                     ` bug#20545: Transliterating curved to straight quotes in 8-bit environments Paul Eggert
2015-06-01 14:31                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-11 15:57 ` bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct Stefan Monnier
2015-05-13  7:33   ` Paul Eggert
2015-05-11 16:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-05-26 11:24 ` bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Quote Paul Eggert
2015-05-27 14:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-27 15:27     ` Paul Eggert

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