From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:16:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <05ce8456-0e90-47b6-85a6-52720c1cc30b@default> References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <20150816225346.GA5367@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 1439767036 14505 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2015 23:17:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie , Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 17 01:17:03 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZR7Aj-0006yv-KZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR7Ai-0002zp-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR7AW-0002zG-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR7AR-0005SV-9p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:16:48 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:17869) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR7AR-0005SB-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t7GNGWZu012934 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:16:34 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t7GNGVik004427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:16:31 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0002.oracle.com (abhmp0002.oracle.com [141.146.116.8]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t7GNGUR2001311; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 23:16:30 GMT In-Reply-To: <20150816225346.GA5367@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: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:188824 Archived-At: > > > Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics >=20 > > And there we go, sneaking curved quotes everywhere in the Elisp > > source files. FTR, I hate that. >=20 > No big surprises here, but so do I. And I. (No surprise here either.) It was obvious that this "experiment" would not be just that. > Paul, people have got to edit these files. Doing this has rarely > been easy. Polluting them globally with non-working characters > is going to make this even more difficult and much less pleasant. But surely no such consideration is as important as Paul's sense that `...' is, hmm, ugly? A small sacrifice for Paul's cosmetology. A giant leap of somekind. The Eagle will keep landing. > Revert this change, please. Good luck with that.