From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable electric quotes in the Emacs codebase. Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <319850cc-c0bb-513e-0b6e-2fd26f499d23@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20190102212128.74437-1-phst@google.com> <83va353l8z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546542785 23288 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2019 19:13:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:13:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 20:13:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from listsout.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8QM-0005sl-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 20:12:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8ST-0005hQ-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:15:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8Rp-0005hI-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:14:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8Rp-0008Oz-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:14:29 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:38960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8Rl-0008NK-21; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4E1160ECF; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id s9FV9WhH5_Mw; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B5A160EE4; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 8amqnCX5GFfX; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-242-74-103.socal.res.rr.com [23.242.74.103]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3F249160E5C; Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83va353l8z.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232144 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Paul, can you tell in which files you find electric quote mode > helpful? Random text files other than .el, .c, .texi. This includes ChangeLog files, notes, and so forth. Even in .el and .c files I often prefer electric quote mode for comments, and for strings in the occasional files that deal with quotes themeselves.