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bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 20:16:23 +0300

> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:56:12 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 20545@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > do we really need the underscores?
> > What would be their purpose?
> 
> To tell the user that the characters are not really "`" and "'", but are 
> something else.

I fear it will just be a source of confusion.  FWIW, when Texinfo's
Info reader makes similar replacements, it doesn't mark them in any
way, so the user really doesn't know the characters were replaced.





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