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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:32:18 -0700 (PDT) |
I said this, which is not clear:
> If this were HTML or XML (or even JSON) then we would not be trying
> to sacrifice one of the first two for the third. We would simply
> adopt an unmistakable tag for code quoting.
No doubt we do have a similarly unmistakable tag for code quoting,
in TexInfo.
That tag is transformed to `...' in Emacs Info. If it were transformed
to ‘...’ instead then we would lose the distinction between single-quoted
ordinary text and quoted code. That's all.
And of course in help (e.g. `C-h f') and in Emacs-Lisp comments and doc
strings, there is no TexInfo representation.
Users should be able to search for a code term foo and not also hit
ordinary text occurrences of foo. That is approximately possible
today. And it is simple today to (reasonably, if imperfectly) tell
font-lock to highlight `...' occurrences (as it would be for ‘...’).
In some XML-based editors that provide a WSIWYG view, users can
search specially for a given element (e.g. <CodeInline>) or one with
a given attribute value, while remaining in WYSIWYG. But that is
a separate search capability from regexp or simple text search in
the same editors. In Emacs you can easily search for `...' occurrences
and pretty much find what you are looking for.
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, (continued)
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Artur Malabarba, 2015/04/24