From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 06:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20150601104935.19764.qmail@mail.muc.de> <556C81C4.3010107@cs.ucla.edu> <20150601171723.GB16298@acm.fritz.box> <556CA97C.8070807@cs.ucla.edu> <20150602115600.GA3468@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433251594 18310 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2015 13:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20707@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie , Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 15:26:20 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 1YzmCr-0005Ro-72 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:26:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCp-0005ul-V0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCm-0005ue-M8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCi-0001Xu-Gx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCi-0001Vr-E0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCg-0007jJ-KO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:26:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20707 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20707-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20707.143325155129695 (code B ref 20707); Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20707) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jun 2015 13:25:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36979 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCU-0007is-Pp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:19943) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YzmCT-0007ig-5M for 20707@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t52DPYhg004615 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:25:34 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t52DPXNk011599 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:25:34 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0006.oracle.com (abhmp0006.oracle.com [141.146.116.12]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t52DPXru012286; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 13:25:33 GMT In-Reply-To: <20150602115600.GA3468@acm.fritz.box> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] 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:103475 Archived-At: > But I come back to the point. Why start using these curly > characters at all? I put it to you you're fixing what > isn't broken. > > One of Emacs's strong points has always been its working > in pretty much any environment. You're going to slightly > improve what these things look like in some display > environments at the cost of slight inconvenience all > round. What we currently have works, works well, and has > done for decades. +1. So that makes two of us. (Whoopee.) Unfortunately, our dear leader has opted to follow down this rabbit hole, under the delusory banner of "Modernization". Perhaps in a decade or two someone will have the brilliant eureka of introducing an easy-to-type, unambiguous convention for distinguishing code from ordinary text, including from quotations. For example, enclosing it in `...'.