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Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether? |
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Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:45:58 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 09:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > > `help-quote-translation' does seem to prevent curly quotes in
> > > *Help* buffers, so at least there's that. But I'm looking for
> > > a switch to turn this virus OFF everywhere - to return to
> > > Classic Emacs. Surely such a simple ON/OFF switch exists?
> >
> > It doesn't. What you see in Info is literal characters generated
> > when the documentation is built during the Emacs build process.
> > So, to change that, you will have to regenerate the documentation,
> > telling makeinfo not to produce Unicode characters there.
> >
> > Alternatively, you can set up your standard-display-table to display
> > those characters as their ASCII equivalents.
>
> That's horrible. Users should be able to control this, easily.
Why? We don't have easy controls for displaying one character as
another. Why should these characters be different?
> I don't see this problem in a Windows binary from 2014-11-30. The
> regression was apparently introduced to the Windows builds between
> then and 2014-12-29.
It's the question of which version of Texinfo was used for producing
the docs. The defaults in Texinfo changed recently, independently of
Emacs development.
> A display-table hack would presumably change all uses of a curly
> quote.
A display table can be specific to a buffer or a window. See the
ELisp manual for more about that.
But it was you that asked for a switch that changed them _everywhere_,
which is why I suggested standard-display-table, which is global.
> That's not appropriate - it is only the code-"quoting"
> uses that need to be changable/configurable by a user.
What is "code-'quoting'"? An Info manual is not code, it's mostly
text, but you still wanted these characters changed there.
- How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/24
- RE: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- RE: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/24
- RE: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, David Kastrup, 2015/08/24
- RE: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, David Kastrup, 2015/08/25
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/24
- RE: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Drew Adams, 2015/08/24
- Re: How to opt out of curly-quote spamming altogether?, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/24