Re: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/26/2015 05:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> In contrast, it's quite simple to use curved quotes to denote quotes.

People voiced their concerns about discomforts when typing those 
already. It's only "simple" in a very narrow sense.

> This is a judgment call, and the conservative approach is of course to
> add some more escape sequence complication to our ASCII-only approach,
> and/or to use gimmicks like font-lock mode to display characters other

font-lock mode is no gimmick.

But you're conflating its usage with the ASCII-only approach again. 
They're orthogonal: you can just as well use ASCII quotes and translate 
them using substitute-command-keys. Or vice versa.

> than what's actually in the buffer.  But really, it's much simpler to
> use quotes to denote quotes, some of us prefer doing it the simpler way,
> and we should give the simpler alternative a try.

I really wish you gave it a try in a feature branch, and then asked for 
a vote before merging it into master.