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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-08-24 23:37:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-08-24 23:57:21 -0700 |
| commit | 68280c5ee9b87d874ffa7c111b3cac7e634cee22 (patch) | |
| tree | 955f3f692c7254074cac682c4e7e64b6f1361a35 /doc | |
| parent | 0db4992d2778a2da4dee8ca07cde8c5e206f5250 (diff) | |
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Treat ' like ’ even when not matching `
This is simpler and easier to explain, and should encourage better
typography. Do this in Electric Quote mode and when translating
quotes in docstrings. Inspired by a suggestion by Dmitry Gutov in:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg00806.html
* doc/emacs/text.texi (Quotation Marks):
* doc/lispref/help.texi (Keys in Documentation):
* etc/NEWS:
Document this.
* lisp/electric.el (electric-quote-post-self-insert-function):
* src/doc.c (Fsubstitute_command_keys):
Always treat ' like ’ even when not matched by an open quote.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/text.texi | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/help.texi | 20 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/text.texi b/doc/emacs/text.texi index 5a13f208876..31760b70b4c 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/text.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/text.texi @@ -420,13 +420,11 @@ left and right single or double quotation marks @t{‘like this’} or @t{“like this”}. Typewriter quotes are simple and portable; curved quotes are less ambiguous and typically look nicer. - Electric Quote mode makes it easier to type curved quotes. It -optionally converts a quotation's grave accent and apostrophe @t{`like -this'} to single quotation marks @t{‘like this’}. Similarly, it -converts a quotation's double grave accent and double apostrophe -@t{``like this''} to double quotation marks @t{“like this”}. These -conversions are suppressed in buffers whose coding systems cannot -represent curved quote characters. + Electric Quote mode makes it easier to type curved quotes. As you +type characters it optionally converts @t{`} to @t{‘}, @t{'} to @t{’}, +@t{``} to @t{“}, and @t{''} to @t{”}. These conversions are +suppressed in buffers whose coding systems cannot represent curved +quote characters. @vindex electric-quote-paragraph @vindex electric-quote-comment diff --git a/doc/lispref/help.texi b/doc/lispref/help.texi index ab884f8dc80..44c09a2085a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/help.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/help.texi @@ -318,25 +318,13 @@ stands for no text itself. It is used only for a side effect: it specifies @var{mapvar}'s value as the keymap for any following @samp{\[@var{command}]} sequences in this documentation string. -@item ` -(grave accent) stands for a left quote, and alters the interpretation -of the next unmatched apostrophe. - -@item ' -(apostrophe) stands for a right quote if preceded by grave accent and -there are no intervening apostrophes. Otherwise, apostrophe stands -for itself. - @item ‘ -(left single quotation mark) stands for a left quote. +@itemx ` +(left single quotation mark and grave accent) both stand for a left quote. @item ’ -(right single quotation mark) stands for a right quote. - -@item ' -(apostrophe) stands for a right quote if -preceded by grave accent and there are no intervening apostrophes. -Otherwise, apostrophe stands for itself. +@itemx ' +(right single quotation mark and apostrophe) both stand for a right quote. @item \= quotes the following character and is discarded; thus, @samp{\=`} puts |