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Re: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: how to turn off automatic curly-quoting?
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:14:27 +0300

> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 08:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > How about 'symbol-quoting-style'?  Isn't that more accurate than
> > 'text-quoting-style'?
> 
> Definitely.  But this "quoting" is used not only for symbols but also
> for Lisp (and other language?) sexps generally.  It is also used for
> key sequences.  And I've seen other uses too - cross-refs, file names,
> or URLs, perhaps?
> 
> `sexp-quoting-style' is better than `symbol-quoting-style' is (much!)
> better than `text-quoting-style', which is quite misleading.

"Symbol" is more general and its meaning more clear (at least to
newbies) than "sexp", IMO.

> What about just `quoting-style'?

Too general, and thus misleading, IMO.



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