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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-09-30, at 10:31, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, 
>> address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:58:22 +0200
>> 
>> >> In theory, yes.  But: `C-x <DEL>'.
>> >
>> > Not sure what is your problem with this" "i C-x DEL RET" finds that
>> > binding nicely.
>> 
>> Funny: i C-x DEL RET works, but i C-x <DEL> not.
>
> "C-x <DEL>" should NOT work.  Key bindings are indexed without the
> <..> markup.
>
>> (OTOH, i C-x <RET> works again.)
>
> How do you mean "works"?  Where in the manual does it land you?
>
>> >> (Although this is obviously a bug/omission.)
>> >
>> > Is it?
>> 
>> So probably yes, at least an inconsistency (a minor one, I admit).
>
> There was a small number of incorrect index entries for key bindings,
> I fixed them now.

Thanks.

>> >> And the section on interactive codes is really long, and I search
>> >> for it often enough that the curly quotes do annoy me.
>> >
>> > Again, not sure what's the problem.  here's what I'd do:
>> >
>> >   "i interactive code RET" followed by "C-s ^" (for example)
>> 
>> How about C-s P? ;-)
>
> Why would I do something like that?

To find the explanation of the interactive code `P'?  (or ‘P’)?

> Anyway, I think we can close this discussion now.

Agreed.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski