GNU bug report logs - #20385
Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #146 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:42:08 -0700

On 04/23/2015 05:27 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I hate it when proprietary programs pull this
> trick.

If we do anything like smartquotes, it should be an option that you can 
turn off, and there should be a more-traditional-but-still-easy way to 
insert curved single quotes.  For the latter, perhaps we could have M-( 
insert "‘’" when in a string or comment.  M-( is already documented to 
have a precondition that point is not in a string or comment, so this 
would be an upward-compatible extension. Or perhaps you could suggest 
better bindings.  This sort of thing might be good enough that we 
wouldn't need smartquotes after all.

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