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Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: quotation marks [was Re: TUTORIAL.de updated]
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:48:37 +0200

> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:08:26 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: 'Ulrich Mueller' <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On 01/19/12 09:22, Drew Adams wrote:
> > `...' is an Emacs doc & UI convention, not simply a "coding standard".
> 
> For user interfaces it would be better if Emacs quoted
> “like this” or ‘like this’ (i.e., using directed
> quote marks) in the typical case where these quote marks
> are supported.

Before we go that way, we will need to make sure the closing quote
mark behaves like ' does, wrt syntax (and thus word-level cursor
movement commands).  Currently it doesn't.




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