From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.blogging Subject: Re: [Emacsweblogs] i18n Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1e7a74211001281954h1295a717id942a4405dc98b25@mail.gmail.com> <87vdekbt60.fsf@everybody.org> <1e7a74211001310729s6b0c506cv41cdea9b19274fba@mail.gmail.com> <87fx5l8kat.fsf@everybody.org> <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265040135 22171 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 16:02:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Mark A. Hershberger" , smc , emacsweblogs@nongnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 17:02:06 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nbyiv-0005CA-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nbyiv-0006FR-Im for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NbyiH-0005jb-Mu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41745 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NbyiH-0005j1-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbyiF-0003L8-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:37471 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NbyiF-0003Ks-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:01:19 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEABKJZktFpaN9/2dsb2JhbACBM9kzhEUEilo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,383,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="55065963" Original-Received: from 69-165-163-125.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.163.125]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 01 Feb 2010 11:01:17 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B97837F8A; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:01:17 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <877hqxqqxz.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:51:36 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:120783 gmane.emacs.blogging:88 Archived-At: >> I don't know enough to say whether _"string" is a viable way to mark up >> text in Emacs Lisp, but my first guess is that it isn't -- not without >> work done to the internals. > It's not. It would be easy to change the reader such that _"foo" is automatically read as (_ "foo"), just like we do for 'foo -> (quote foo). Stefan