From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:30:37 +0000 Message-ID: <1a0f9230b74fe15d1abf@heytings.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83v934emk7.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfy8d7oo.fsf@gnus.org> <9194fc93-fb9c-000f-a35a-321ddd259893@gmx.at> <8735q5yi63.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czp9by3s.fsf@gnu.org> <05cbffe0-f89b-ff54-64f5-cd1d11bac4f5@yandex.ru> <831r5pbt7j.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnnhacy4.fsf@gnu.org> <40937e22-994f-466c-87be-4f70a522118a@yandex.ru> <83o88t9kgb.fsf@gnu.org> <9672aeae-a969-1526-003b-abb1b00b5b49@yandex.ru> <87sfy43dlt.fsf@gnus.org> <1a0f9230b7d75e426474@heytings.org> <1a0f9230b71c3d2eff86@heytings.org> <835yuz8na8.fsf@gnu.org> <1a0f9230b7571d4c3293@heytings.org> <831r5n8kqa.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Jtd8O6UlP0" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37304"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 17 14:33:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mRD3X-0009Pu-OV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:33:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41194 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRD3W-0001yH-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:33:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRD0u-0000Mr-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:30:44 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]:39254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRD0q-0008Ly-Mi; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:30:44 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20210101; t=1631881838; bh=JqWBwnFV/QxgE6kpnbmneoZC8j7njknKX8ZL7eVvfzw=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=peaWOHrPwMSjB8DqMU3uOuvjLI2zlzqwb6xjqwNxwVkUcC5E5EsdsAVR+Y6kaMkcB qk9DSVQnSKE7CDB8BrhRKMBECjA8VeouImytOqbXrfJOzsF6UN5lh8KMJUwLhRDItb NaKvhJeC1lwNO+eSZnpwlBtuY5J+b4/6w1qq9gnhhqZITK+j5N522hgFw/gw+pgVyi tSbxNg0G0u3Et9it8/wCTUAVue6xqSI4u8zHJyIwOCU0k04J40TaZUBz5Uze/fLqKB xLvrSuw4s58bGMi5xNbNqYeNZ/4ZByXhwIcJHEiSsEOCN27xm9xLFykZ61U7clcPOc 6u2M1JZ9pY29A== In-Reply-To: <831r5n8kqa.fsf@gnu.org> Content-ID: <1a0f9230b7de8c0b459a@heytings.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274866 Archived-At: --Jtd8O6UlP0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <1a0f9230b7ad70e43b19@heytings.org> >>> They definitely fit better for this task than =C2=B4, which is not even= a=20 >>> quote character, and isn't classified as punctuation. >> >> That depends on each one's preferences. And ` is also not a quote=20 >> character, it's a grave accent > > Which is why we are trying to stop using it as a quote character. > Except that doing this throws the baby out with the bathwater. If some=20 think it looks ugly, it is IMO better to make it look better, instead of=20 stopping to use it. Because it's much easier to parse (as a pair) than=20 double apostrophes. It's a historical accident that ASCII included paired= =20 {} () [] <>, but no paired quotation marks. --Jtd8O6UlP0--