From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:02:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83oah27kdj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55F83FDF.2070202@cs.ucla.edu> <83y4g77io1.fsf@gnu.org> <55F86E4D.5030505@cs.ucla.edu> <83vbba7szc.fsf@gnu.org> <55F91EE3.7010905@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442397804 7042 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2015 10:03:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 12:03:13 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 1Zc9YV-00068H-Me for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:03:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YV-0000IK-Fa for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YR-0000H5-DN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YM-0002qE-F7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YM-0002pz-Cx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YM-0006TS-1I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:03:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21472 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21472-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21472.144239777224870 (code B ref 21472); Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21472) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Sep 2015 10:02:52 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34076 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YB-0006T4-T3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:44657) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9YA-0006Sw-2m for 21472@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUR00H00L4A5T00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 21472@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:57 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUR00HV7L781K20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55F91EE3.7010905@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il 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:106635 Archived-At: > Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:48:51 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > We index all terminology introduced in a manual, as a matter of > > principle. > > That's news to me, and the manuals often don't index terminology within @dfn. > For example, doc/emacs/basic.texi says @dfn{minor modes} but does not index the > term. A quick eyeball of that file suggests that only about half of its terms > enclosed in @dfn are indexed. I'm not opposed to having more index entries for > @dfns if someone wants to do it, but it doesn't appear to be a hard rule. Many rules of good documentation are followed only partially. That doesn't make them any lesser. This rule should be obvious: if you introduce and explain some terminology, you should always consider the possibility that someone will want to read about that terminology, and so it should be in the index.