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

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/20/2012 05:13 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> maybe it would be nicer to have %` and %' for
> open/close quote instead

I had thought of that, but %' already has a different
meaning with POSIX printf (it inserts thousands grouping
characters when formatting numbers), and we might want to
implement that in Emacs someday.

We could use some other combinations, e.g., %< and %>
(they kinda look like French quote marks).  It's possible
to support both, that is, one could either write this:

  (format "Cannot open file %`s for reading" "foo.c")

or this:

  (format "Cannot open file %<%s%> for reading" "foo.c")