From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW15c8WCYXcgV29qbm93c2tp?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Escaping quotes in docstrings, Was: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..." Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:49:57 +0200 Message-ID: <55BDD9B5.108@cumego.com> References: <87egkzg7gb.fsf@gmail.com> <558C2E25.10303@cs.ucla.edu> <558C492E.9000705@yandex.ru> <558C7DE1.4060507@cs.ucla.edu> <558C82D2.1070408@yandex.ru> <558CBA7E.7060900@cs.ucla.edu> <558D403D.303@yandex.ru> <558EDD4C.4040002@cs.ucla.edu> <558EE315.3080107@yandex.ru> <558F10FA.409@cs.ucla.edu> <558F4804.1020406@yandex.ru> <559010D6.5090905@cs.ucla.edu> <559058AD.5060504@yandex.ru> <55908355.3080407@yandex.ru> <559356D2.4000103@cs.ucla.edu> <5594813A.3000705@yandex.ru> <5594E0DB.1080702@cs.ucla.edu> <559A1C54.5030405@cs.ucla.edu> <559A6F86.2080809@yandex.ru> <559AAD27.3000403@cs.ucla.edu> <559AFCC3.3070409@yandex.ru> <559B85BE.4070303@cs.ucla.edu> <559B902D.4000906@yandex.ru> <55BC22BB.4020002@cs.ucla.edu> <55BD34B2.5060001@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438505429 16863 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2015 08:50:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 08:50:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Dmitry Gutov , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 02 10:50:21 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 1ZLoyJ-000720-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:50:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLoyI-0005jQ-7V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLoy8-0005ho-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:50:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLoy4-0000OT-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp20.iq.pl ([86.111.242.225]:51105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZLoy4-0000AY-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 18088 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2015 08:49:58 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.104]) (esperanto@cumego.com@[77.255.102.39]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp22.iq.pl with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Aug 2015 08:49:58 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: <55BD34B2.5060001@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 86.111.242.225 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:188289 Archived-At: Hi. Is this still thread about a change from the type of quote that is on each keyboard (`') to the other one (that is not)? IMHO it would be fantastic exercise to do a retrospective after implementing the feature. My two questions for the retrospective: 1. What was purpose of the change? To replace `' with the other one (sorry, don't have it on my keyboard)? What for? 2. *Was it worth it*? Considering number of people involved and time spent by those writing and reading emails (even I'm wasting my time now on writing this email). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you shouldn't do what you are doing. Everyone can do with their time what they want, but maybe it would be good to create a Backlog for Emacs and prioritize (at least a bit) to see what's really important and _is_ worth the effort. Cheers, Przemysław