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#20385
Support curved quotes in doc strings
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Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:40:04 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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On 05/13/2015 06:13 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> ‘again’? Emacs has been using asymmetric quotes in doc strings
> forever.
I mean that the suggestion was voiced but never sufficiently addressed.
> Or are you referring to the original Bug#20385 proposal of
> straight apostrophes? Stefan wasn't sure he liked that idea, and
> preferred curved quotes. I'd be happy either way, myself; the point is
> that those grave accents have got to go.
The suggestion to use font-lock was Stefan's as well.
> That's been proposed, but nobody has taken the time to do it. Plus,
> it'd be One More Thing; it's simpler if doc strings are plain strings
> and are not little subsets of Markdown or whatever.
That's trivial, if there's agreement to do it. I don't really understand
the motivation for the original proposal (to switch away from `...'), so
it's not clear to me if font-locking would satisfy it.
Also, will going from `...' to '...' be beneficial enough, provided
font-lock displays both as curly single quotes? The downsides to this
are obvious (changing habits, re-training contributors).
"Plain" unicode strings are not that plain, especially if it still takes
4 keypresses to type the character, and I also need to explain to
contributors how to do that.
> It looks OK when I use Thunderbird 31.6.0 in Ubuntu 15.04 in an American
> English locale (first attachment). It's not a thing of beauty,
> admittedly, but it's legible enough. It looks much nicer under emacs
> -Q, which is what counts (second attachment).
That's not a question of aesthetics.
For some reason still unclear to me (I have English locale and language
set everywhere I can see), it displays a group of cyrillic characters
(тАШ) instead of the fancy quotes. Which will complicate reading small
patches somewhat (ones I wouldn't open in an external program otherwise).
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