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26.0.50; Support for Markdown in electric-quote-mode

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 24709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24709: 26.0.50; Support for Markdown in electric-quote-mode
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:59:52 +0000

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> schrieb am So., 16. Okt. 2016 um
19:22 Uhr:

>
> When editing a Markdown document with electric-quote-mode enabled, the
> experience is not optimal because ` (backtick) in Markdown is a syntax
> element (for introducing code spans and blocks), but is converted by
> electric-quote-mode.  Also ` and ' inside code spans and blocks continue
> to insert curly quotes where they shouldn't.  I propose the following:
>
> - Provide an alternative behavior of electric-quote-mode where ` doesn't
>   trigger replacement and ' can insert left or right curly quotes,
>   depending on whether it follows a space or similar (newline, beginning
>   of buffer, opening parenthesis).
>
> - Provide a way to disable electric-quote-mode for certain regions,
>   effectively the inverse of the existing electric-quote-string etc.
>   This could be in the form of syntactic elements or text properties.
>
>
>
I've attached a patch. It doesn't cover all cases, though; e.g. an
unterminated Markdown code span is not supported yet.

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