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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: Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:49:13 +0000

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 28. Juni 2017 um
23:59 Uhr:

> 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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