From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: close buffer with keystroke?
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:08:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ullsmihuu.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: etllsn61ad.fsf@mine.epflz.ch
marcuirl <marcuirl@imap.no2this.cc> writes:
> Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
>
>>> Hmm. It's supposed to be quote marks, hopefully it appeared as such!
>>> I'm using pan as my newsreader for the first time tonight, so it might
>>> have got that wrong.
>>
>> Oh ok. I just asked because many programing languages and other things
>> attach special functions and commands to the ` key -- so I didn't know
>> if you were doing something bizarre. :-D
>
> Theres been a whole discussion on some other newsgroup as to why *nix
> people like `blahblahblah' and not 'blahblahblah' or "blahblahblah"
>
> Its personal I guess!
[...]
I don't know about other POSIX or non-POSIX programs. But in an Emacs
context ` and ' are used by convention when referring to symbols.
[Personally I detest it, but I don't have to like a convention in
order to follow it.]
Oliver
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-16 21:26 close buffer with keystroke? Jeff D. Hamann
2003-09-16 18:31 ` Dave Footitt
[not found] ` <mailman.326.1063750480.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-09-16 19:10 ` Dave Footitt
2003-09-16 22:35 ` Dan Anderson
[not found] ` <mailman.327.1063751726.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-09-17 12:35 ` marcuirl
2003-09-18 9:08 ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2003-10-08 21:06 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-09-16 22:14 ` Dan Anderson
2003-09-16 21:57 ` Dan Anderson
2003-09-17 7:48 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-09-17 15:58 ` Jeff D. Hamann
2003-10-08 21:04 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-09-18 14:55 ` Nicolas Neuss
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