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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:34:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>> But we're still referring to a function argument `foo' as FOO in
>> docstrings, no?
>
> Yes, there's no proposal to change that.
I was just wondering because the quoted text said to quote lisp symbols
with single quotes, and parameters are lisp symbols, too, or arent they?
>> is there something better for inserting single quotes as using
>>
>> M-x insert-char LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET
>> M-x insert-char RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK RET
>
> I typically use Electric Quote mode, and type ` and ' which is pretty
> easy.
I just did `M-x electric-quote-mode RET' and `electric-quote-paragraph'
is t, and still nothing is rewritten. Ah, it seems it's only active for
modes deriving from text-mode which message-mode apparently doesn't
do...
> You can also type "C-x 8 [" and "C-x 8 ]".
That works.
> If your Alt key works you can also type "A-[" and "A-]".
What does "Alt key works" mean? Alt is Meta here, so typing Alt-AltGr-(
says M-[ is undefined.
Bye,
Tassilo
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Oleh Krehel, 2015/06/22
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., raman, 2015/06/15
RE: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Drew Adams, 2015/06/15