Re: text-quoting-style

[David Kastrup]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> HT works fine for copy&paste&search&replace.
>
> Yes, it “works fine”, in the sense that we‘re used to its behavior.
> In that behavior, HT does not always stand exactly for itself; quite
> the contrary. (Even SP does not do that.)  Insisting on philosophical
> grounds that every character must always stand exactly for itself
> would make Emacs less useful.

The curved quotes are not about making Emacs more useful.  They are
about reading aesthetics, but their effects are not restricted to the
read form.

-- 
David Kastrup