From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <3506@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>, <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#3506: 23.0.94; nil shouldn't be quoted in Info manuals
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:17:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0A264C46C34B459990BD6269AC9C76F8@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39078782233F48EB88BAA491A2F0F8C8@us.oracle.com>
> Similarly, throughout the manual. Also, the Org manual uses
> `nil' in at least some places.
>
> (Personally, I think `nil' and `t' look better than nil and
> t, but IIUC those two symbols are not supposed to be quoted.)
Apparently I was wrong about it being the convention that those two symbols not
be quoted. Looking at the manuals generally, they seem to be quoted. Dunno where
I got that idea; I thought I recalled Richard mentioning it as the convention to
follow.
So much the better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 6:17 bug#3506: 23.0.94; nil shouldn't be quoted in Info manuals Drew Adams
2009-06-09 6:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-06-09 16:17 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-06-10 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2009-06-10 5:19 ` Drew Adams
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