From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should we use `symbol' or 'symbol' in Emacs change logs? Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:48:56 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5387AB48.2020805@cs.ucla.edu> References: <871tvczf1l.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87fvjsgzo0.fsf@Rainer.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401400195 6643 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2014 21:49:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 21:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 23:49:48 2014 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 1Wq8Ca-0006qB-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 23:49:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq8CZ-0002eC-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 17:49:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq8CO-0002Z4-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 17:49:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq8CH-0001qe-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2014 17:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:55787) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wq8CH-0001nz-7t; Thu, 29 May 2014 17:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8078639E8011; Thu, 29 May 2014 14:49:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id j8fQp52hNcwl; Thu, 29 May 2014 14:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC5CE39E8008; Thu, 29 May 2014 14:48:56 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:172188 Archived-At: On 05/29/2014 01:26 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > if someone happens to use 'foo' in a ChangeLog entry, the > world won't fall apart (at least, not immediately). 'foo' is quite common in Emacs ChangeLogs nowadays. For example, in src/ChangeLog's most recent ten entries that use single quotes, seven quote 'like this' and three quote `like this'. We shouldn't insist on the latter style.