From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:53:46 +0000 Message-ID: <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439765598 27718 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2015 22:53:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:53:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 17 00:53:10 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 1ZR6nc-0002NC-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR6na-0005R7-Vh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR6nO-0005Qp-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR6nL-0006hj-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:49367) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZR6nL-0006bU-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 21829 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Aug 2015 22:52:48 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5B147EFB.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.20.126.251]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5408 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Aug 2015 22:53:46 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 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:188823 Archived-At: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:44:28AM +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 08/16/2015 07:01 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > > branch: master > > commit 9ce1d38890a77e93af0d20f51c53419c097200d3 > > Author: Paul Eggert > > Commit: Paul Eggert > > > > Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics > And there we go, sneaking curved quotes everywhere in the Elisp source > files. FTR, I hate that. No big surprises here, but so do I. 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. > > In the core elisp files, use curved quotes in diagnostic formats, > > so that they follow user preference as per ‘text-quoting-style’ > > rather than being hard-coded to quote `like this'. This user's preference is to be able to type quote marks in Emacs source files directly without mincing workarounds, and to be able to search for them likewise. Revert this change, please. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).