From: Zack Piper <zack@apertron.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:15:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150906071532.GA4425@apertron.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b657423-49dc-42fa-9b45-49e3dd49ad0c@default>
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 10:05:43PM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > Those that represent symbol quotations in doc strings should be removed.
> >
> > They work fine just as they are, and in some ways they work better than the
> > straight quotes do. Users can see them as straight quotes if they like.
> >
> > There is not a strong argument for removing them.
>
> No strong argument was ever given for adding them.
>
> There was never _any_ argument given for adding them, beyond
> your complaint that you find `...' ugly.
>
> You've turned Emacs upside down and inside out, to make it do
> what you want. Users and Emacs Dev will be dealing with the
> aftermath for a long time to come. Alas, no one stopped you
> in your crusade, so here we are.
>
As I agree that we didn't really need to change quotes at all (and I
prefer the "old style" quotes) I don't think that level of hostility
was really needed.
However, I am now curious if there is other examples of "Emacs being
turned upside down and inside out" that Paul has participated in.
--
Zack Piper <zack@apertron.net> http://apertron.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-06 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-05 1:14 Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Richard Stallman
2015-09-05 1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-06 4:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06 5:05 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-06 7:15 ` Zack Piper [this message]
2015-09-06 7:16 ` Zack Piper
2015-09-06 7:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06 17:40 ` raman
2015-09-06 19:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-07 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-07 23:17 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-08 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-08 13:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 13:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-08 16:20 ` raman
2015-09-08 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-08 22:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-09 15:27 ` raman
2015-09-09 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 19:55 ` T.V Raman
2015-09-09 22:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 7:55 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 15:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 17:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-14 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 15:30 ` T.V Raman
2015-09-08 15:37 ` raman
2015-09-05 3:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
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