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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:00:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E3FB90.3040505@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E3F9D7.6040601@cs.ucla.edu>

On 08/31/2015 09:53 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Those snippets are not about quote translation; they are about other
> topics.

Then the quote translation won't have any meaningful impact on the 
observed behavior one way or the other.

But if it's such a problem, don't use quotes in the examples.

>We should simply
> use strings that users will normally see as themselves, as that's the
> most intuitive and won't get in the way of the real topics there.

If you think the translation behavior is hard for a user to understand, 
why not revert the whole rigamarole? It doesn't add *that* much value.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20150831061236.27796.57762@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1ZWIKb-0007FR-Kk@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31  6:26   ` [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31  6:39     ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31  6:47       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31  6:53         ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31  7:00           ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2015-08-31  7:13             ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01  0:03           ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02  1:05             ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  1:27               ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02  1:30                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  5:19                   ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02  5:30                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:40                     ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 16:32                       ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 15:38               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 17:42                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 18:49                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 21:50                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:08                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 22:47                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 22:59                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-07  1:28               ` Richard Stallman
     [not found] ` <E1ZWIKd-0007Fs-15@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-08-31  6:29   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31  6:38     ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 17:34     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:40       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-31 18:48       ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01  7:35         ` David Kastrup
2015-08-31 17:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31 18:03       ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01  1:55         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-09-01  3:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01  6:29           ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 10:45           ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 10:53             ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-01 11:22             ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 11:40               ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 11:42               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 12:06                 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 14:20                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 10:16                     ` Oleh Krehel
2015-09-03 11:22                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-03 14:50                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-03 15:04                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 13:31               ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 14:15                 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-01 15:39             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:00               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02  4:07                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02  5:28                   ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 10:02                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 11:22                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41                       ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-02 15:53                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 16:38                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 15:37                           ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-03 17:26                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 16:32                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 17:23                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 17:43                         ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 22:25                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 10:48                             ` David Kastrup
2015-09-03 12:45                               ` Andreas Schwab
2015-09-03 14:46                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-02 22:13                         ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-03 12:22                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-03 14:56                             ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-04 13:22                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 20:14                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 19:25               ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-07  1:28                 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01 19:33               ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02  2:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02  5:23                   ` David Kastrup
2015-09-02 11:16                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 11:52                     ` Quoting yank/diff prefixes (was: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim) David Kastrup
2015-09-03 14:34                     ` [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 22:57             ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01  0:03     ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-01  1:20       ` Paul Eggert

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