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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: text-quoting-style
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:03:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150901130303.GC2362@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfv2yu8eb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Hello, Stefan.

First of all, sorry that my last post was a bit irritable.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:31:20PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I DO NOT WANT CURLY QUOTES IN MY EMACS!!!!!
> > How much more concrete can I get?

> Then I guess you should go back to Emacs-19, since AFAIK curly quotes
> have existed one way or another in Emacs ever since Emacs-20.

I find the state of quoting as of Emacs 24.5 to be quite acceptable.

> So, as far as I can tell, there's nothing we can to do help you.
> And text-quoting-style is no solution for you either, since Emacs's
> source code and many other documents will still come with those pesky
> thingies.

It's an Emacs tradition that controversial new features are optional.
Curly quotes is such a new feature.  Can you assure us all that this
tradition will be upheld with respect to curly quotes?

> IOW you agree that we should get rid of text-quoting-style.

If there will be a configuration mechanism to replace it which is
capable of configuring Emacs such that the quoting behaviour is
unchanged from 24.5, then I agree it can be got rid of.

>         Stefan

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-01 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-28  2:03 text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28  5:22 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-08-28  7:06 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28  7:37   ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28  7:54     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28  8:42       ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 14:39         ` text-quoting-style Yuri Khan
2015-08-28 14:49           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:00         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:31           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:39             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:48               ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28  7:29 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 16:42   ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28 17:25     ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-28 17:48       ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 18:28         ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-29 14:54       ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-29 15:59         ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-30  1:59           ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-30 13:16             ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31  1:30               ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31  6:29                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 20:13                   ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 21:29                     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 12:47                       ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 16:27                         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:07                           ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 18:35                           ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 23:58                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  9:09                               ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 15:13                                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:44                           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-01 19:08                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 13:46                       ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 16:28                         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:08                           ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 17:34                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:30                               ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02  0:07                                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:27                                   ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 15:35                               ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-08-31 20:01                 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01  3:31                   ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01  9:28                     ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 10:53                       ` text-quoting-style Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 13:03                     ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-09-01 16:46                       ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 20:41                         ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-01 23:47                           ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:18                             ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02  0:35                               ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:53                                 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02  6:57                             ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-02 15:17                               ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:36                                 ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41                                 ` text-quoting-style Bastien Guerry
2015-09-01 22:55                     ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-09-02  9:05                       ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 16:10       ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-08-31 17:31         ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 19:34           ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-09-03 15:29             ` text-quoting-style raman
2015-08-31  6:15     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert

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