From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:31 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5536F01B.2040606@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu> <5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu> <83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9s948zp.fsf@petton.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429663824 19789 80.91.229.3 (22 Apr 2015 00:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 22 02:50:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykiri-0000tR-Jp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 02:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykirh-0006af-SJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykire-0006YJ-TV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykirb-0001Jk-M7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykirb-0001J4-I4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Ykira-0008Mw-TD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:50:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20385 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20385-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20385.142966378432127 (code B ref 20385); Wed, 22 Apr 2015 00:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Apr 2015 00:49:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35649 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkirI-0008M7-9Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:49:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55272) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkirF-0008Li-IE for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 20:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FEFEA60008; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WsM8y5kfLJ2U; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 096BAA60007; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:49:32 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101851 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > But yes, `...' is ugly. It used to be pretty back in the XFree86<4.0 > days, when they were symmetric And before that, some character-based video display terminals displayed `...' nicely. There was good technical justification for this, as the 1965 draft definition of ASCII said 0x27 was the code for an opening single quotation mark. However, standardization headed in a different direction long ago and nowadays `...' is ugly everywhere. For more of the history, please see: Kuhn M. ASCII and Unicode quotation marks (2007). http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html