Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Quote after quote behavior

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-11-29) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> When quote-after-quote functionality is enabled, i.e. first key press
>> inserts ", second key press replaces this by an opening or closing
>> quotation mark (e.g. "` in documents using the `german' or `ngerman'
>> option), it is quite difficult to insert "" which is a hyphenation aid
>> provided by the babel package for German.  The problem is that
>> repeatedly hitting <"> will insert "`"`"`.
>
> Rather "`"'"'"'.

Uh, yes.

>> What do people think about changing the behavior to insert " only when
>> typing <"> and there is an opening/closing quotation mark or multiple
>> " characters in front of point?  That means typing <"> will result
>> in ", twice "`, three times "", four times """ and so on.  The
>> attached patch would make this possible.
>
> Would appear somewhat consistent with what we do with --.  However,
> something like
>
> "`"Uberflieger"' would become pretty hard to type.

I think the "" is more common, so I checked it in.

-- 
Ralf