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: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20545: New minor mode Electric Punct
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:56:12 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> do we really need the underscores?
> What would be their purpose?

To tell the user that the characters are not really "`" and "'", but are 
something else.  It's the same reason we underline the "\u2018" and the "\u2019".
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