From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
"Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
ke.vigouroux@laposte.net, 40671@debbugs.gnu.org,
"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:15:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f0db18b-3f09-46f6-a8c6-b2b6a25183f9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b51600a6-3d42-d135-414c-fbde7b8d4a60@yandex.ru>
> > Remember your curly-quote
> > crusade? You did the same thing then, with similar
> > complaints about acting widely, unilaterally, and
> > prematurely.
>
> I disagree about the comparison. The curly-quote was (still is) a
> fiasco, a big scope of changes (and breakages) with comparatively
> little practical benefit. This bug report at least deals with a
> real problem.
Yes, I agree about that difference.
> And of course it's much easier to criticize (what a lot of us have been
> doing) than provide actual wording changes. So I wouldn't say
> committing too soon was a significant problem in this particular
> instance. It's not a far-reaching change, and we could still revert it.
And I agree with you there, too.
But I think Michael's point was about the
cooperation/attitude, not the nature or difficulty
of the problem to solve or the magnitude of any
problem of undoing committed changes.
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2020-04-16 19:28 bug#40671: [DOC] modify literal objects Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-04-17 16:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 16:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-17 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-18 20:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-18 21:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 2:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-19 20:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:01 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:16 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 22:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 22:51 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 3:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:46 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 23:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-19 2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-19 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 16:59 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-19 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 21:02 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 21:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 21:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-19 22:41 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-19 23:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 0:24 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 0:53 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 3:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-22 6:30 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-20 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-22 17:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-23 0:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-24 2:36 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24 15:08 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 1:58 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 16:39 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-04-24 16:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 2:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 2:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-25 3:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 19:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 3:49 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 14:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 14:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 16:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 17:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 18:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-26 18:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 18:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 19:22 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-04-26 20:14 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-26 21:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 23:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-27 0:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-27 1:49 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 3:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 8:17 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 13:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:59 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 18:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 19:20 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 20:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 23:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 0:55 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 1:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-29 1:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-04-29 1:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29 16:18 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 2:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-01 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-01 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-01 5:15 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 21:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-01 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 22:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-02 15:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 1:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 7:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 16:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 20:48 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 22:39 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-03 22:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-03 23:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-04 10:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-04 17:52 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 1:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-05 6:09 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 12:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-09 6:10 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-10 3:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 13:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-10 17:29 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 0:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 1:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 2:33 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 2:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 4:21 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-11 4:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 6:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 13:57 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-05-11 22:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 22:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-12 3:20 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-12 4:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-13 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-13 5:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-14 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <05BEF593-F16A-4DEE-98BC-653221F1F9EE@acm.org>
2020-05-17 0:11 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 9:43 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-05-17 16:38 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 1:53 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-11 3:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-11 0:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-11 1:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-12 1:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 1:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 5:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-05-17 16:34 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-17 12:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-17 16:21 ` Paul Eggert
2020-05-05 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 18:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-05 19:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-05 20:48 ` Kevin Vigouroux via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-09 5:57 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 21:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-28 17:25 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-28 17:47 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 1:40 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 4:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 16:36 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-24 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-04-25 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25 18:26 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 2:22 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-25 6:00 ` Andreas Schwab
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2020-04-28 23:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-21 1:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
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