From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:37:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429558762 25771 80.91.229.3 (20 Apr 2015 19:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 20 21:39:10 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 1YkHXC-0002eF-G7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55142 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHXB-0002qm-T4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHX8-0002qh-KP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHX4-0003rb-Dp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44104) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHX4-0003rV-AK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHX3-0006e9-Rg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:39:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:39:01 +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=B20385.142955869025482 (code B ref 20385); Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:39:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2015 19:38:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33880 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHWE-0006cv-9l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:33299) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YkHWC-0006cn-8I for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43D085ECC; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D78B1E5B8C; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 247B4B40DC; Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:37:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:39:15 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca 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:101780 Archived-At: > Emacs's traditional doc string style has been to quote symbols > `like this'. This worked well on older terminals where ` and ' > were symmetric quotes, but nowadays this quoting looks odd and > it's better to use apostrophe for single-quoted ASCII text. > Add support for quoting either way, suggesting the newer style. I'm not sure I like this. Yet, I don't like the look for `...' either. Stefan