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


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: smartquotes.el -- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:53:56 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I fail to see how Quail can be used to do what smartquotes.el does.
>
> It ought to be able to translate sequences of periods and hyphens
> into other text.  And it could have another similar mechanism for
> entering the various kinds of quotations.
>
> I am not saying I am sure this is better than your approach.  But it
> has the advantage of being more coherent with the rest of Emacs,
> i.e., not being another ad hoc feature.  We should not adopt the ad
> hoc approach without giving this one a try too.

I think this might need a way to have several Quail methods active at
once.  I have considered using Quail for some things in AUCTeX, but
not being able to use other input methods at the same time is a
showstopper.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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