From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting Emacs to play nice with Hunspell and apostrophes Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:51:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ha3s71mt.fsf@debian.uxu> <87tx7rsevi.fsf@debian.uxu> <8738fbscao.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402577557 16548 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 12:52:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:52:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 14:52:29 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4UW-00016O-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:52:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4UW-0005r4-7A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:52:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57321) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4UC-0005q4-DY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4U4-00015b-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51166) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4U3-00014D-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv4U2-0000cX-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.224.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:51:58 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:51:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:N68Yf4p8vaIZFTDsgVhSbGUPpEQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98170 Archived-At: > The fact that everybody uses " and ' and ` is a historical artifact, a > workaround of sorts, due to the limitations of the mechanical > typewriter. We need not be affected by it any more. The limitation of "number of keys on a keyboard" along with the limitations of the human brain mean that it's still very convenient for users to be able to just use " and ' rather than having umpteen subvariants and needing to remember which to use where and how to type them in. Stefan