https://github.com/alhadis/atom-xtermquotes

Make `this' look like ‘this’ in your editor window. Without touching any file data.
https://github.com/alhadis/atom-xtermquotes

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Make `this' look like ‘this’ in your editor window. Without touching any file data.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alhadis/atom-xtermquotes
• Owner: Alhadis
• License: isc
• Created: 2018-12-24T04:34:24.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-01-16T13:00:17.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-20T18:37:17.347Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: atom, atom-package, quotes, xterm
• Language: CSS
• Size: 114 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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XTerm-style quote hack

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You've probably seen text quoted `like this' before:

![Figure 1: Backtick/apostrophe quotes](figure-1.png)

Unless you were hacking in the 80s, chances are this notation looks foreign and hackish to you. The origin of this quote-style is [kinda complicated](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/73996/101379), but basically pre-Unicode terminals had screen fonts with backtick/apostrophe glyphs that looked like this:

![Figure 2: Sun Gallant Demi (Solaris 11.3)](figure-2.png)

Whoa! Much nicer, eh? Sad you don't see it once you fire up your window manager...

Unless you install this.

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This package employs a sly hack to style `this' to look like ‘this’ (using [`U+2018`](https://graphemica.com/%E2%80%98)/[`U+2019`](https://graphemica.com/%E2%80%99), proper directional quotes). The effect is purely cosmetic; i.e., the underlying file data isn't changed, only its appearance:

![Figure 3: CSS rules!](figure-3.png)

The package is careful not to target source code, and it only applies the effect within comments, readmes, and docstrings (and only if the backtick/apostrophe style is used).

Temporarily disabling the quote-hack

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Understandably, it might get confusing not knowing which is a directional quote and what's secretly a backtick/apostrophe pair. The package includes an editor command to toggle the effect on-and-off, although it isn't bound to a keybinding by default. You can add one yourself, if toggling faux-quotes is important to you:

~~~cson

# In `~/.atom/keymap.cson':

body:

	"ctrl-y": "xterm-quotes:toggle"

~~~