From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single quotes in Info Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:45:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87iofwgmb5.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> References: <<87twzhgk84.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <<838ugsrysw.fsf@gnu.org> <05b3fe29-fb15-4686-ab6d-53e6f6643477@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422117935 29100 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2015 16:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 16:45:35 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 17:45:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YF3pz-0003lh-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF3py-0001LR-Ib for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF3pj-0001KI-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF3pg-0003RP-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:45:15 -0500 Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:52518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YF3pg-0003RF-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518F14AC52; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:45:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6XzgPHnOmhql; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:45:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (117-116.echostar.pl [213.156.117.116]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DDE764AC4F; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:45:09 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <05b3fe29-fb15-4686-ab6d-53e6f6643477@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:808:114:2::50 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102243 Archived-At: On 2015-01-24, at 16:54, Drew Adams wrote: > And I think it does not hurt users to be reminded that curly > quotes are not as easy to type as straight quotes (with many/most > keyboards), and that Info is about things like search and not > only about display. Thanks to Marcin for reminding us all. You're welcome. BTW, I love the Info system. Only recently I learned to use its index (and not only isearch), and it's even better with that. My particular use case was with the info page on interactive codes. I wanted to search for the string "`p'", and I could enter curly quotes using M-e and editing the search query with some unicode-aware things (C-x 8 RET, for instance), but this is a nuisance. (Also, in my case, isearch-forward-regexp wouldn't help.) Please note that I do appreciate typographical niceties like proper quotes and such. In this case, however, usability is more important than aesthetics imho. > It is perfectly legitimate to discuss possible new features on > this list, as well as current limitations & possible workarounds. That's good to know! :-) -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University