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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
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Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:11:40 -0700 |
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On 04/23/2015 07:51 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
Sacrificing being able to use two levels of quoting for ordinary
text in favor of stealing one of them for code quoting
That's not what the Emacs info files do. They prefer American English
conventions for ordinary text, including quoting “like this” for
ordinary top-level text. And they prefer single quoting at the top
level ‘like-this’ for quoting code. There's no ambiguity in practice,
as ordinary quoted text does not quote code in the manuals. Emacs doc
strings are similar, so there won't be any ambiguity in practice there
either.
No doubt we do have a similarly unmistakable tag for code quoting,
in TexInfo.
Yes, it's @code{whatever}.
That tag is transformed to `...' in Emacs Info.
No, @code{foo} is transformed to ‘foo’.
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, (continued)
- 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, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings,
Paul Eggert <=
- 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
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/21