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: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:05 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55D3A6E9.3020902@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> <55D2C080.2000806@cs.ucla.edu> <87wpwt5619.fsf@gnu.org> <55D36CB5.10803@cs.ucla.edu> <878u9879q9.fsf@igel.home> <19BD5D76-06A0-4FC0-A46F-760B2C27D321@gmail.com> <55D39B49.8000807@yandex.ru> 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 1439934216 10434 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2015 21:43:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:43:36 +0000 (UTC) To: Dmitry Gutov , Chad Brown , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 23:43:15 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 1ZRof4-00011d-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:43:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59651 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRof3-0003Qy-MF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRof0-0003Ql-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRoex-0003Pp-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:60479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRoex-0003PJ-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCDC16074B; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) 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 PRJDHPyjTIsG; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB78160D1E; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) 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 mvK_rNq8VA4h; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C38A216074B; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 In-Reply-To: <55D39B49.8000807@yandex.ru> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:188911 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov wrote: > Since you're writing prose, the discussion should be irrelevant to you. > > It's only about which quotes to use in the Emacs Lisp source files. That remark could easily be misinterpreted by those not closely following the discussion. We're not talking about ", `, and ' in Emacs Lisp syntax -- nobody's proposing changing that. We're talking only about the prose that appears in commentary and strings of Emacs Lisp source files, and this makes Chad Brown's remarks about prose relevant to the discussion.