Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     ;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes;
>
>     ;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes;
>
>     ;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an 
> additional
>     ;;   fourth dot resumes with a string of dots;
>
>     ;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), 
> then an
>     ;;   ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string 
> of
>     ;;   normal hyphens.
>
> I can see why it is useful, but we already have a similar facility:
> Quail.  What about using Quail for this?

Can Quail support multiple input methods at once?  Because it would be
inconvenient to be able to use such a feature only when no other input
method is used.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum