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| From: | Dmitry Gutov |
| Subject: | Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:55:26 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0 |
On 06/17/2015 04:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
To me, one of the motivations for the change (after the visual aspect) is to have a *more* robust handling because it is *less* ambiguous (within the context of Elisp).
That is probably true, but by that logic, using rare unicode characters is a great choice for any markup language. Yet, I don't see anybody doing that.
Another reason to use ‘‘ instead of anything else, seems to be that we're going to translate `' into those anyway. But that won't necessarily hold true forever: the quotes themselves aren't required.
Markdown, for instance, when rendered, only emphasizes code segments using a special tag, which translates into a different font face/color/etc. I don't see why we won't choose to do that, or allow users to customize that aspect.
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