From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jorgen Schaefer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:36:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87u04zn7i9.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> References: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> <85odv9eaz9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <871ws5qhd7.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154311549 18805 80.91.229.2 (31 Jul 2006 02:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 31 04:05:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7NA8-0005e8-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:05:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7NA7-0007q5-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7N9w-0007oi-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G7N9u-0007oE-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7N9u-0007oB-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G7NCT-0002K1-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G7N9k-0005bn-BL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from c186032.adsl.hansenet.de ([213.39.186.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from forcer by c186032.adsl.hansenet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:05:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c186032.adsl.hansenet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57827 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks > as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor > RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are. > > Maybe they should be. Wouldn't it be convenient? For some, yes. For others, no. Especially in multi-lingual text, this can be annoying. > (They would have the same > problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left > quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right > one.) > > We can solve this problem, for whichever characters, by creating > a mode that selects one behavior or the other. How about creating modes for the various options, or even just a single `set-quote-environment', and set the syntax to punctuation by default? Regards, -- Jorgen -- ((email . "forcer@forcix.cx") (www . "http://www.forcix.cx/") (gpg . "1024D/028AF63C") (irc . "nick forcer on IRCnet"))