Re: [Emacs-diffs] master c4151eb: Improve the optional translation of quotes

[Paul Eggert]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> See the bottom of this email for the patch

I didn't see any patch in that email, unfortunately -- perhaps you forgot to 
include it?

> - "too tempting to implement complicated heuristics that would have been a pain
> to document" is not a good argument not to do something in a high-level 
> language.

True.  But it's still a temptation we should strive to avoid.

> - Like you said: "describe-variable should curve the quotes in the doc string,
> but not in the contents of the variable". The code that prints the value will
> need to add some text property to it ("verbatim"? "font-lock-ignore"?), and the
> font-lock rule can look it up and skip those regions. Nothing too hard.

As you'll recall, I don't understand font-lock.  That being said, I worry that 
all this stuff would be complicated and would involve using undocumented or 
poorly-documented features (see Bug#20613).

Also, it's not clear how the overall approach would work on limited displays 
that don't have alternate fonts and/or colors.  Suppose, for example, that the 
user is running 'emacs --color=never' on a character terminal?