Re: French quotes treated as parentheses

[Jorgen Schaefer]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     I don't think it's a good idea to mark angle quotation marks
>     as parenthesis syntax. Neither LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK nor
>     RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK are.
>
> Maybe they should be.  Wouldn't it be convenient?

For some, yes. For others, no. Especially in multi-lingual text,
this can be annoying.

>      (They would have the same
>     problem: German uses DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK as the left
>     quotation mark, and LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK as the right
>     one.)
>
> We can solve this problem, for whichever characters, by creating
> a mode that selects one behavior or the other.

How about creating modes for the various options, or even just a
single `set-quote-environment', and set the syntax to punctuation
by default?

Regards,
        -- Jorgen

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