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Re: French quotes treated as parentheses
From: |
Jorgen Schaefer |
Subject: |
Re: French quotes treated as parentheses |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:36:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks
> as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor
> RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are.
>
> Maybe they should be. Wouldn't it be convenient?
For some, yes. For others, no. Especially in multi-lingual text,
this can be annoying.
> (They would have the same
> problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left
> quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right
> one.)
>
> We can solve this problem, for whichever characters, by creating
> a mode that selects one behavior or the other.
How about creating modes for the various options, or even just a
single `set-quote-environment', and set the syntax to punctuation
by default?
Regards,
-- Jorgen
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- Re: French quotes treated as parentheses, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/29
- Re: French quotes treated as parentheses, Yann Hodique, 2006/07/30
- Re: French quotes treated as parentheses, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/29