From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:36:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8d3c179-3da6-0e02-7833-af98a421c020@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1dulkB-0002dM-23@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On 09/20/2017 01:37 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I am not insisting this particular option is worth including there.
> Maybe it is, but that's not my point. I think the fact that this
> conversion EXISTS should be there.
How about the attached patch to do that? (I have not installed this.)
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From 01102f0b42076fc732783b6bf852cadc2609527a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:33:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Mention quoting in user manual
* doc/emacs/display.texi (Display Custom): Briefly mention quoting.
Lack of documentation noted by Alan Mackenzie in:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-09/msg00632.html
---
doc/emacs/display.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi
index 2aa79e1161..a668317e85 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi
@@ -1839,6 +1839,13 @@ Display Custom
@code{tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors} with a non-@code{nil}
argument to suppress the effect of bold-face in this case.
+ Emacs infers how to quote in help and messages by examining its
+environment. By default, Emacs quotes @t{‘like this’} with curved
+single quotes if displayable, and @t{`like this'} with grave accent
+and apostrophe otherwise. @xref{Keys in Documentation,, Substituting
+Key Bindings in Documentation, elisp, The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference
+Manual}.
+
@vindex display-raw-bytes-as-hex
Raw bytes are displayed in octal format by default, for example a
byte with a decimal value of 128 is displayed as @code{\200}. To
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2017-09-16 12:56 Emacs 26.1 release branch created Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 13:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-16 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 14:51 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-16 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 16:59 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-22 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 20:05 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-22 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 20:13 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-29 20:25 ` [PATCH] lcms2 (was Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created) Mark Oteiza
2017-09-30 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-16 14:18 ` Emacs 26.1 release branch created Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-16 17:05 ` Rasmus
2017-09-16 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-18 9:36 ` Rasmus
2017-09-18 9:47 ` Rasmus
2017-09-20 11:45 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-20 11:59 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-20 12:01 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-20 12:17 ` Rasmus
2017-09-20 12:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-20 13:03 ` Rasmus
2017-09-16 18:06 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-09-16 19:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-17 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-18 16:22 ` Alan Third
2017-09-18 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 17:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-19 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 18:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-19 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 19:11 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-19 19:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-19 20:54 ` About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created] Kaushal Modi
2017-09-19 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-19 23:33 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-20 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-20 4:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-20 6:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-23 11:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-23 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-23 19:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-24 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-25 13:40 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-25 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-26 12:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-29 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-30 7:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-30 8:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-30 20:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-09-20 17:44 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-20 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 14:45 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-20 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 17:30 ` Filipp Gunbin
2017-09-19 23:14 ` Emacs 26.1 release branch created Paul Eggert
2017-09-20 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 13:01 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-20 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-20 20:37 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-21 20:36 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
[not found] ` <<E1duedQ-0002Bs-O3@fencepost.gnu.org>
2017-09-20 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-20 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 17:58 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-20 18:30 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-21 20:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-22 5:19 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-22 5:58 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-22 18:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-22 18:47 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-22 20:42 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-24 14:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-24 18:13 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-24 20:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-22 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-22 18:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-22 19:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-22 19:28 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-22 19:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-22 19:46 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-22 22:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-24 14:39 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-24 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-24 19:41 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-24 23:16 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 0:08 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-25 4:23 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 19:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-25 19:43 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-25 20:24 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 22:25 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-26 2:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-26 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-26 19:28 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-26 20:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-27 9:15 ` Alexis
2017-09-27 22:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-09-28 1:48 ` Alexis
2017-09-27 23:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-09-28 1:25 ` Alexis
2017-09-27 11:54 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-27 18:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-28 7:42 ` Philippe Vaucher
2017-09-26 20:33 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-29 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<83shf597b0.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-09-30 4:06 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-30 4:41 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-30 13:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-25 23:36 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-30 12:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-10-01 0:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-10-01 11:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-09-25 5:51 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-22 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-27 18:09 ` João Távora
2017-09-27 19:32 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-28 7:28 ` João Távora
2017-09-28 7:28 ` João Távora
2017-09-28 16:58 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-29 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 17:04 ` João Távora
2017-09-29 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-29 18:13 ` John Wiegley
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