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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 06:58:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55EEE97F.1040008@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55EEDBE7.8050903@yandex.ru>

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> You still kept translations from curly quotes in substitute-command-keys and
> format-message. Is that on purpose?

Yes, as well as support for highlighting their contents in docstrings, etc. 
Even if curved quotes are not used in Emacs source code itself, they are still a 
perfectly good style for users like me who prefer them in their own code.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-08 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-05  1:14 Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Richard Stallman
2015-09-05  1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06  2:59   ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-06  4:48     ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06  5:05       ` Drew Adams
2015-09-06  7:15         ` Zack Piper
2015-09-06  7:16           ` Zack Piper
2015-09-06  7:06       ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06 17:40       ` raman
2015-09-06 19:59         ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-07  1:25       ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-07 23:17         ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-08  2:24           ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-08 13:00           ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 13:58             ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-09-08 16:20               ` raman
2015-09-08 17:00                 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-08 22:23                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 23:58                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-09 15:27                     ` raman
2015-09-09 17:50                       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 19:55                         ` T.V Raman
2015-09-09 22:24                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10  3:28                           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10  7:55                             ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 15:12                               ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 15:46                                 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 17:25                                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-14  9:27                                     ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 15:30                                       ` T.V Raman
2015-09-08 15:37             ` raman
2015-09-05  3:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06  2:59   ` Richard Stallman

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