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Re: text-quoting-style


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: text-quoting-style
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:54:41 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > As I understand it, Alan introduced text-quoting-style because he did not
>> > want curved quotes in any buffer or string, even curved quotes displayed as
>> > grave accent and apostrophe.
[...]
> Paul's assertion I have just confirmed.  Unless I've missed or
> misunderstood some development in the last two months or so, the need for
> `text-quoting-style' still exists: if we're going to be doing clever
> things to make ` and ' get converted, or appear to get converted, into
> curly quotes, then a user must be able to enable/disable this conversion.

That doesn't answer the question of why we need text-quoting-style.
Instead what I take from your argument is that "if we do what we do,
then we need text-quoting-style".


        Stefan



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