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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore
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Jesper Harder |
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Re: [TIP] Get rid of the `foo' eyesore |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:26:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> writes:
> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> There's an entrenched habit in Emacs and Info of abusing ` (grave
>> accent) and ' (apostrophe) as left and right single quotation marks.
>>
>> They aren't, and it looks horrible.
>>
>> Some old broken X fonts do have the "wrong" glyphs in those positions
>> -- that's probably how the habit started. But fortunately there's a
>> better way to get rid of the eyesore than using a broken font. By
>> modifying the display table like this
>>
>> (aset standard-display-table ?` [342392]) ; ‘
>> (aset standard-display-table ?' [342393]) ; ’
>
> But this changes the appearance of ` and ' in all places, even where
> they are not perused as quotation marks.
Yup, but that's more or less what I want. For example ` in Lisp is
called the backqoute construct, not the grave accent construct :-)
I'm pretty sure that the glyph most people saw on their terminals when
the backquote syntax was invented was ‘ rather than `. I guess the
same applies to shell syntax and TeX (I think Knuth mentions the
problem somewhere in the TeX book).