GNU bug report logs - #20545
New minor mode Electric Quote

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 23:57:02 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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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:10:07 -0400

> I just now configured a terminal to refuse to display curved quotes, and
> when I used it Emacs displayed "‘like this’" as "\u2018like this\u2019" with
> underscores below the "\u2018" and the "\u2019".

Hmm... is it really Emacs that displayed it like this?  Or is it the
terminal which did it?  If it's Emacs, then I wonder how it figured it
needed to do that, and if it's the terminal, then I wonder how Emacs
could tell the terminal to...

> ... display it as "`like this'" with underscores under the "`" and the "'",
> if you think that'd be a win.


        Stefan
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