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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:57:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g4ns7tr.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738fbscao.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:20:31 +0200")

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Emanuel Berg [2014-06-11 17:20:31 +02:00] wrote:

> You still haven't said one word why anyone would benefit from using
> those chars instead of the standard " and ' (and ...) that works
> everywhere and that everyone is familiar with (having trained their
> eyes for them year-in, year-out).

For instance, every book uses real quotation marks and apostrophes. They
are standard in the publishing world. Many people use Emacs to write
text that will be published (web, printed material).

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3187.1402155569.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11  0:04 ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11  5:23   ` Nikolai Weibull
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3375.1402464243.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 14:24     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 15:03       ` Nikolai Weibull
     [not found]       ` <mailman.3418.1402499010.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 15:20         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-11 16:57           ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3437.1402505846.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-11 21:32             ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-12  5:43           ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-12 12:51             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-12 13:36               ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-12 14:48                 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]               ` <mailman.3496.1402580195.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14  1:49                 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14  5:45                   ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-17  1:09                     ` Keyboard layout purpose (was: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes) Garreau, Alexandre
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.3627.1402724759.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:14                     ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14 14:51                       ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-14 15:26                         ` Teemu Likonen
2014-06-17  1:42                         ` Garreau, Alexandre
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.3651.1402757512.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 16:13                         ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-16 15:35                           ` Joost Kremers
2014-06-17  2:21                           ` Garreau, Alexandre
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.3799.1402971688.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-17  2:41                             ` Rusi
2014-06-17  3:05                               ` Rusi
2014-06-17  1:46                       ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-15  2:48                     ` Sergio Pokrovskij
2014-06-17  1:30                       ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-12 16:58             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]           ` <mailman.3473.1402551809.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14  1:35             ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14  2:38             ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14  5:19               ` Facts for fans: encodings history (was: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes) Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14  7:37                 ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-14  8:28                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-14 10:46                     ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.3631.1402731427.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:21                   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-14  7:11               ` Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Yuri Khan
     [not found]               ` <mailman.3630.1402729917.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-06-14 11:20                 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-06-17  2:12 ` Rusi
2014-06-17  2:33   ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-06-07 15:39 Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 17:43 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-06-07 17:59   ` Yuri Khan
2014-06-07 18:18   ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 17:53 ` Sharon Kimble
2014-06-07 18:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-07 18:28 ` Nikolai Weibull
2014-06-07 18:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-07 19:59     ` Nikolai Weibull

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