From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created] Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:24 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <601a163a-5b0c-5017-30bd-e6d58a23ecc8@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83377mls4d.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919173511.GA19168@ACM> <83bmm6h8vr.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919180944.GB19168@ACM> <838thah71i.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919194356.GC19168@ACM> <20170919210925.GF19168@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505865670 28230 195.159.176.226 (20 Sep 2017 00:01:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:01:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kaushal Modi To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 02:01:05 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1duSRo-0006vK-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 02:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45935 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duSRw-0004SV-Ax for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duSRL-0004SD-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:00:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duSRK-0008C9-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:42574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duSRH-00087z-JD; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8CB8160BF0; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:25 -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 lCiPLHzHMj5X; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9E21608AA; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:24 -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 VC14UnatSxNs; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.18.85]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4518160AEB; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218556 Archived-At: John Wiegley wrote: > I vaguely recall a discussion from 1.5 years ago where it was decided t= hat it > *should* be a user configurable option I found that discussion here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/23372 and it concluded with your agreeing that there was no need for a defcusto= m in=20 25.1, and that we could wait until after 25.1 was out and then see whethe= r a lot=20 of Emacs users were unhappy with the situation. Again, I don't care whether it's a defcustom. You and Eli get to decide (= not me,=20 thank goodness :-).