From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: French quotes treated as parentheses Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44C9A1D5.5090001@gmx.de> <85odv9eaz9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <871ws5qhd7.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154186312 11375 80.91.229.2 (29 Jul 2006 15:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 17:18:30 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 1G6qaB-0006Oh-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6qaB-0003Dv-Cz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6qZq-00032t-Bm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6qZp-00032I-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6qZp-000325-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6qc4-00032D-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G6qZo-0000Ez-SM; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:18:04 -0400 Original-To: Jorgen Schaefer In-reply-to: <871ws5qhd7.fsf@forcix.kollektiv-hamburg.de> (message from Jorgen Schaefer on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:23:16 +0200) 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:57790 Archived-At: 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? (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.