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

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:21 -0800 Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote: 

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

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

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

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

PE> or this:

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

That would be nice.

Ted