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diff --git a/doc/emacs/text.texi b/doc/emacs/text.texi index f28488e4545..6c513c9a607 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/text.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/text.texi @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ beginning of a line. @cindex mode, Electric Quote @cindex curly quotes @cindex curved quotes +@cindex guillemets @findex electric-quote-mode One common way to quote is the typewriter convention, which quotes using straight apostrophes @t{'like this'} or double-quotes @t{"like @@ -420,9 +421,15 @@ left and right single or double quotation marks @t{‘like this’} or @t{“like this”}. In text files, typewriter quotes are simple and portable; curved quotes are less ambiguous and typically look nicer. +@vindex electric-quote-chars 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{”}. +@t{``} to @t{“}, and @t{''} to @t{”}. It's possible to change the +default quotes listed above, by customizing the variable +@code{electric-quote-chars}, a list of four characters, where the +items correspond to the left single quote, the right single quote, the +left double quote and the right double quote, respectively, whose +default value is @code{'(?‘ ?’ ?“ ?”)}. @vindex electric-quote-paragraph @vindex electric-quote-comment @@ -443,7 +450,10 @@ type @kbd{C-q `} or @kbd{C-q '} instead of @kbd{`} or @kbd{'}. To insert a curved quote even when Electric Quote is disabled or inactive, you can type @kbd{C-x 8 [} for @t{‘}, @kbd{C-x 8 ]} for @t{’}, @kbd{C-x 8 @{} for @t{“}, and @kbd{C-x 8 @}} for @t{”}. -@xref{Inserting Text}. +@xref{Inserting Text}. Note that the value of +@code{electric-quote-chars} does not affect these keybindings, they +are not keybindings of @code{electric-quote-mode} but bound in +@code{global-map}. @node Filling @section Filling Text |