>> I've never seen guillemets used alone. They always come in pairs in my
>> experience,
> But your experience isn't universal.
I never claimed it is. But unless using string-syntax for those things
breaks more cases (or in more serious ways) than not using string-syntax, it
makes sense to choose the lesser of two evils.
> It's obviously not wide enough to override what Unicode and other
> authorities document.
Their purpose is different. Emacs is largely about making the common-case
convenient (as far as it doesn't make the rare case impossible).
>> so it'd be convenient to be able to use M-C-f and M-C-b to jump
>> over them. Just like the " quote, actually.
> Yes, offhand I can think of four uses of " that aren't as balanced
> quotes, and again Unicode says it has punctuation syntax.
Feel free to share those cases with us, so we can assess them,
Stefan
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