;;; Commentary
;; The functions provided by xmlunicode.el for the insertion of the fancy
;; unicode quotes (double and single) take into account the context of the
;; document for XML documents. Those quotes are more useful, in my experience,
;; in text files written in UTF-8 encoding, such as ReST syntax. The XML
;; functions from xmlunicode often do not work properly in text files, due to
;; the presence of the occasional < or > symbol.
;; Therefore, the smart insertion functions are difficult to use, because their
;; behavior is unpredictable. In accordance with The Humane Interface principles
;; (see J.Raskins' book), we provide context-independent versions of these
;; functions that are much easier to learn and use quickly, since their
;; behaviour is unambigous.
;;; Usage
;; To use the suggested bindings, insert this in your .emacs:
;;(require 'smartquotes)
;;(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'text-mode-unicode-hook)
;; This does the following for text-mode bindings:
;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes;
;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes;
;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional
;; fourth dot resumes with a string of dots;
;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an
;; ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of
;; normal hyphens.
;;; smartquotes.el --- Insertion of unicode quotes in text documents -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
;; Copyright (C) 2007 Martin Blais
;; Inspired by xmlunicode.el, Copyright (C) 2003 Norman Walsh
;; Author: Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
;; Maintainer: Martin Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
;; Created: 2007-08-26
;; Version: 1.0
;; Keywords: utf-8 unicode characters
;; This file is NOT part of GNU emacs.
;; This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Commentary
;; The functions provided by xmlunicode.el for the insertion of the fancy
;; unicode quotes (double and single) take into account the context of the
;; document for XML documents. Those quotes are more useful, in my experience,
;; in text files written in UTF-8 encoding, such as ReST syntax. The XML
;; functions from xmlunicode often do not work properly in text files, due to
;; the presence of the occasional < or > symbol.
;; Therefore, the smart insertion functions are difficult to use, because their
;; behavior is unpredictable. In accordance with The Humane Interface principles
;; (see J.Raskins' book), we provide context-independent versions of these
;; functions that are much easier to learn and use quickly, since their
;; behaviour is unambigous.
;;; Usage
;; To use the suggested bindings, insert this in your .emacs:
;;(require 'smartquotes)
;;(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'text-mode-unicode-hook)
;; This does the following for text-mode bindings:
;; - C-" inserts then cycles through the fancier double quotes;
;; - C-' inserts then cycles through the fancier single quotes;
;; - Inserting four dots inserts an ellipsis character. Inserting an additional
;; fourth dot resumes with a string of dots;
;; - Inserting four hyphens inserts an mdash (a long dash character), then an
;; ndash (an inter-word dash character), and then resumes with a string of
;; normal hyphens.
;;; Changes
;;; Code:
(defvar smartq-ldquo (decode-char 'ucs #x00201c))
(defvar smartq-rdquo (decode-char 'ucs #x00201d))
(defvar smartq-lsquo (decode-char 'ucs #x002018))
(defvar smartq-rsquo (decode-char 'ucs #x002019))
(defvar smartq-quot (decode-char 'ucs #x22))
(defvar smartq-apos (decode-char 'ucs #x27))
(defvar smartq-capos (decode-char 'ucs #x0002bc))
(defvar smartq-ndash (decode-char 'ucs #x002013))
(defvar smartq-mdash (decode-char 'ucs #x002014))
(defvar smartq-hellip (decode-char 'ucs #x002026))
(defun smartq-cycle-chars (charlist)
"Given that the last character is the given list, cycle the
last char between the available characters in the list."
;; (let ((ch (char-before)))
(let ((newch (cadr (memq (char-before)
(append charlist (list (car charlist)))
(if newch
(progn
(delete-backward-char 1)
(insert new
