Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
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> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 21:40:03 +0200
> 
> >> Still, the _default_ behavior is broken here.
> >
> > If it's broken, it isn't broken by Emacs, right?
> 
> Kind of.  If TeXinfo's default is now to use curly braces, can't it be
> switched off?

No, not unless we customize Texinfo on the lowest level, i.e, the
level of text transformation in texi2any.  Since no other project does
that, I don't recommend that we do it.  In any case, it will only
affect the manuals maintained by the Emacs project -- other Info
manuals will still be using curly quotes.

> If Emacs' makefile orders TeXinfo to use borked quotes, Emacs itself
> should turn isearch folding so that I'm able to look for them in
> Info buffers, no?

We could discuss turning character folding on in Info buffers, yes.
Not sure if people will agree, given the fact that they wanted it off
by default, but feel free to start such a discussion.

> It's a matter of consistency, isn't it?

No, not really.  I, for one, never search for quotes in Info manuals,
I use the index search (which finds symbols much faster).