From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated] Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:19:27 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87mx9h7z34.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20120118.161204.348826368.wl@gnu.org> <20248.15413.907023.894588@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4x1uqv4pbx.fsf_-_@fencepost.gnu.org> <056566D61BA5441E860782777E736F44@us.oracle.com> <4F18A26A.1020402@cs.ucla.edu> <4F19EBE7.4010902@cs.ucla.edu> <878vl1amcv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4F1A143D.8090603@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327166421 5273 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2012 17:20:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:20:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 21 18:20:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebv-0000Eh-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebv-0005Bd-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebs-0005BW-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:20:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebr-0004QP-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebr-0004QF-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Roebq-0000BD-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:07h4zk14hdpxaDeMYkXEleDByzg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147819 Archived-At: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:21 -0800 Paul Eggert wrote: PE> On 01/20/2012 05:13 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> maybe it would be nicer to have %` and %' for >> open/close quote instead PE> I had thought of that, but %' already has a different PE> meaning with POSIX printf (it inserts thousands grouping PE> characters when formatting numbers), and we might want to PE> implement that in Emacs someday. PE> We could use some other combinations, e.g., %< and %> PE> (they kinda look like French quote marks). It's possible PE> to support both, that is, one could either write this: PE> (format "Cannot open file %`s for reading" "foo.c") PE> or this: PE> (format "Cannot open file %<%s%> for reading" "foo.c") That would be nice. Ted