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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
From: |
Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jun 2015 17:07:24 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hello, Paul.
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 08:39:34AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > What I really meant with my question is how do you type curly characters
> > when outwith Emacs? Say, inside of less, or at a bash shell prompt, or
> > in any of numerous other tools one might wish to use?
> It doesn't come up that often, but for 'less' I am typically searching and
> searching for '.' will do -- I sometimes do that even for ASCII-only
> searches,
> as '.' is easier to type than, say, '\'. I typically run Bash under Emacs
> where
> it's not a problem there either.
> In the rarer cases where I'm outside Emacs or want to search just for curved
> quotes and nothing else, I can type Compose < ' and Compose > ' to get curved
> single quotes. On my current keyboard, the Compose key looks like a menu and
> is
> just to the right of the right Alt key; this is the default setup that came
> with
> Ubuntu 15.04. I'm sure one can get the Compose key to work on the Linux
> console
> too, as plenty of people need to type accented letters on the Linux console.
There appears to be provision for a compose key in the Linux terminal,
yes; it's partially documented in man loadkeys.
> > it's yet another trivial annoyance that one has to heep onto all
> Heh. Trivial annoyances are what motivated this change. I've been trivially
> annoyed at Emacs quoting `like this' for at least a decade. Nearly every
> other
> GNU package has fixed it. I was hoping Somebody Else would fix it for Emacs,
> but nobody ever stepped up so here we are.
You're breaking things. Right now, Emacs works in "any" environment, and
I think this was a positive design decision way back when. You're now
changing Emacs so that its proper working is restricted to UTF-8
environemnts, which is fine for you because you run under such.
As I've suggested before, why don't you make --with-curly-quotes a
configuration option?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
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- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Drew Adams, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/04
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/08
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/09
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/09