From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enable customisation for electric-quote-mode chars Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <874m631qwx.fsf@xi.bootis> <8337lnbhc4.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472496291 9541 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2016 18:44:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:44:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 29 20:44:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1beRY5-0001v8-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beRY3-0007q0-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35425) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beRXI-0007nw-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beRXG-0001Cs-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:52751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beRXB-0001CN-GN; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4836161273; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id SKYL31aH_4se; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C77516127B; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id KoF9W2WSGelq; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E2C6F161273; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:43:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8337lnbhc4.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206901 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The important aspect, IMO, is to try to let the users select the > alternative they like without having to know how to type the quote > characters It would be reasonable to come up with an interface for that, perhaps lis= ting=20 the quoting styles and options. It's not clear that the UI should list la= nguages=20 too -- although that might help, the controversies might be more trouble = than=20 they're worth. Out of curiosity, in good-quality Hebrew text do you prefer top-level quo= ting=20 with " and " or with =E2=80=9E and =E2=80=9C? (I'm writing left-to-right = here; of course the=20 quotes are reversed when displaying right-to-left.)