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: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188168759 14094 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 22:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Martin Blais" , handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 00:52:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPQyC-0008LL-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:52:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQyB-0006NE-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQtI-0001c3-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQtH-0001bE-M7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPQtH-0001b6-Fe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPQtH-00062d-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPQtC-0001sb-N1; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:47:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <1b151690708252221j7177cea1xe8916c52a1110190@mail.gmail.com> (blais@furius.ca) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:77236 Archived-At: ;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes; ;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes; ;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional ;; fourth dot resumes with a string of dots; ;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an ;; ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of ;; normal hyphens. I can see why it is useful, but we already have a similar facility: Quail. What about using Quail for this?