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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-05-28 00:46:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2015-05-28 00:54:06 -0700 |
| commit | 73512b8cff21a5d92ca72b6cfa34a9210d5a5441 (patch) | |
| tree | ca007c5cb2d83a984d2991b62a81c908e25596df /doc/emacs/basic.texi | |
| parent | 4643f6c21a88d27cfb8a3410494bfd7909a98462 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-73512b8cff21a5d92ca72b6cfa34a9210d5a5441.tar.gz | |
New minor mode Electric Quote
This lets you easily insert quotes ‘like this’ by typing
quotes `like this', and similarly you can easily insert
quotes “like this” by typing quotes ``like this'' (Bug#20545).
* doc/emacs/basic.texi (Inserting Text):
* doc/emacs/modes.texi (Minor Modes):
* etc/NEWS: Document it.
* doc/emacs/text.texi (Quotation Marks): New section.
* lisp/electric.el (electric-quote-comment)
(electric-quote-string, electric-quote-paragraph):
New custom vars.
(electric--insertable-p)
(electric-quote-post-self-insert-function): New functions.
(electric-quote-mode, electric-quote-local-mode): New minor modes.
* lisp/progmodes/elisp-mode.el (emacs-lisp-mode):
Add curved single quotes to electric-pair-text-pairs.
Set electric-quote-string in this buffer.
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/basic.texi b/doc/emacs/basic.texi index be45856a6dd..cc9602e8c52 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/basic.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/basic.texi @@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ sign (Unicode code-point @code{U+221E}): A numeric argument to @kbd{C-q} or @kbd{C-x 8 @key{RET}} specifies how many copies of the character to insert (@pxref{Arguments}). + In some contexts, if you type a quotation using grave accent and +apostrophe @t{`like this'}, it is converted to a form @t{‘like this’} +using single quotation marks. Similarly, typing a quotation @t{``like +this''} using double grave accent and apostrophe converts it to a form +@t{“like this”} using double quotation marks. @xref{Quotation Marks}. + @node Moving Point @section Changing the Location of Point |