Subject: RE: dogfood feedback -- Smart Quotes
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 17:17:29 CST
paul> it's by no means clear to me that all should trigger this logic.
paul> In fact, an argument could be made that it should *only* happen
paul> for #1, no? (I admit to not having thought through the
paul> clipboard cases, but it's not at all obvious that they should
paul> trigger quote promotion, either.)
It is very common to be inserting text via cut-and-paste from plain
ASCII files. In such a case, you are likely to want the promotion.
This could be mitigated by the presence of a feature that did smart
quote promotion (or demotion) on a selection. (That feature is
independently handy, but not as handy as it would be to have
spell-check on a selection.)
There may be fewer occasions to do smart quote promotion, or a better
integration point might be identified, but I am confident that "only
when typing" is too limiting.
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