From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Cc: 13228@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13228: Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 09:47:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s3vibur.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2y655gg.fsf_-_@gavenkoa.example.com> (Oleksandr Gavenko's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:15:11 +0200")
Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:
>>From "info texinfo":
>
>> 14.2 Inserting Quote Characters
>> ===============================
>
>> As explained in the early section on general Texinfo input conventions
>> (*note Conventions::), Texinfo source files use the ASCII character ``'
>> (96 decimal) to produce a left quote (`), and ASCII `'' (39 decimal) to
>> produce a right quote ('). Doubling these input characters (```' and
>> `''') produces double quotes (" and "). These are the conventions used
>> by TeX.
>
> So `' quoting style is common for info files. I checked it was used for
> function selection in libc and readline info files. Also it was used in GNU
> Make, R, Autotool and other manuals.
>
> So having highlighting for `' in info mode is good thing for Emacs user
> (compare with emacs-lisp-mode, where it was highlighted).
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)
I'm not sure I quite understand the request here. Is it to highlight
`foo' in .texinfo files, or in `Info-mode'? If it's the latter, I think
we've mostly moved to rendering this as ‘foo’.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-31 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-18 10:56 backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacs document? ziqianggeoffreychen
2012-12-18 11:49 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-18 14:40 ` backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacsdocument? Drew Adams
2012-12-18 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-18 18:57 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-12-18 19:11 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-19 0:40 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-19 0:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-19 17:15 ` Request for highlighting back-quote/quote pair notation Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-12-19 17:49 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.15693.1355939373.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-20 13:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2021-05-31 7:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-02 11:15 ` bug#13228: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-02 15:08 ` bug#13228: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-07-02 15:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-02 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-19 19:57 ` backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacsdocument? Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-12-19 20:31 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-18 15:02 ` backquote quote pair notation: What does it mean in Emacs document? Thien-Thi Nguyen
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