From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: text-quoting-style Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:22:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87twrkgf7c.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440755072 18817 80.91.229.3 (28 Aug 2015 09:44:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 11:44:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZVGCt-0004Es-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:44:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVGCt-0000EG-4k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:44:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54115) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVGCY-0000EA-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVGCY-0002sr-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVGCY-0002si-4H; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56245 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVGCX-0000w7-DV; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39B17E3299; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:22:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:03:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:189262 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Why do we need text-quoting-style? > [ I understand that some terminals can't display those curly quotes, but > that should be handled by some kind of display-table trick. ] Display table tricks will not help with copy&paste to external applications and with files processed by any program rather than Emacs. -- David Kastrup