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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: | Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:20 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 |
Nicolas Petton wrote:
I don't understand how this would better than using backquotes `like-this`
Quoting `like-this` still looks ugly, and still misuses grave accent in a way that's confusing for people not accustomed to the style. It's also harder to parse unambiguously than a matching pair of distinct quote characters.
- Isn't the curved single quote character *really* hard to type?
Yes, and Stefan raised that point too. It should be reasonably easy to fix this (though I haven't coded it up yet).
- aren't curved single quotes only used to display code quotation in compiled info files, not in .texinfo sources
Yes, and partly because of this info-look.el now handles curved single quotes. These sorts of changes are inevitable (and shouldn't be that hard) when accommodating Emacs to common quoting styles.
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