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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Daniel Colascione |
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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:16:32 -0700 |
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On 06/15/2015 09:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:22:37 +0000
>> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>>
>> My view is that the curly quotes should not replace 0x60 and 0x27 in our
>> sources, but that the option to display them as curly quotes should be
>> made available to those that want it.
>>
>> As far as I am aware, there has been no poll to gather and analyse the
>> views of Emacs developers on these changes, much less one for Emacs
>> users. This is a Bad Thing.
>>
>> What do people think?
>
> I think this ship has sailed long ago. E.g., GCC has been spewing
> UTF-8 encoded quotes at me for several years now, and many Info
> manuals started using Unicode characters, that show as gibberish on my
> text terminal, many moons ago.
>
> Like you, I don't like these characters very much. The make my life
> slightly harder. But I like fighting quixotic wars even less.
> Instead of fighting this wave, we should adapt and move on.
>
> And there are ways of adapting: convenient input methods for typing
> the characters, replacements for displaying them on terminals that
> cannot show the originals
Can we make " match fancy quotes in isearch?
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Wolfgang Jenkner, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Juri Linkov, 2015/06/22
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/15
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
Daniel Colascione <=
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Tassilo Horn, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Yuri Khan, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Tassilo Horn, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Artur Malabarba, 2015/06/17
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Nathan, 2015/06/20