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#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:08 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55FA69E4.4090508@cs.ucla.edu> References: <55F83FDF.2070202@cs.ucla.edu> <3aa1fafa-ed4d-4935-8a3e-cae7d0842c5f@default> <83r3ly7rpd.fsf@gnu.org> <55F91EF9.2000302@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvwm7k3s.fsf@gnu.org> <55F98B34.4080703@cs.ucla.edu> <83fv2e706c.fsf@gnu.org> <55F9B482.3050901@cs.ucla.edu> <83bnd26wns.fsf@gnu.org> <55F9D1A0.5060804@cs.ucla.edu> <838u857ivg.fsf@gnu.org> <55FA4DC7.9020401@cs.ucla.edu> <83zj0l60rq.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1442474544 2484 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2015 07:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 09:22:13 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 1ZcTWE-00021r-3D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F06A0160810; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:08 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <83zj0l60rq.fsf@gnu.org> 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: 208.118.235.43 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:106682 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > manuals ... language should be cleaner and more thought-out. Right, but littering a manual with unnecessary quotation marks is not cleaner: on the contrary, it is messy and distracting. Clear and simple explanation should trump pedanticism. The bug report that started this thread stemmed from confusion induced by unnecessary quotes, and many of the quotes you recently reintroduced are just as unnecessary and could easily cause similar confusion.