From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:33:21 +0200 Message-ID: <838tc8acda.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87shaigcvs.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517765525 17259 195.159.176.226 (4 Feb 2018 17:32:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aaronecay@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 18:32:00 2018 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 1eiO8g-0002tP-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:31:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiOAi-0003xc-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:33:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57159) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiOAb-0003x1-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:33:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiOAW-0003HG-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:33:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiOAW-0003H4-JM; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2986 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eiOAV-0005r4-VB; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:33:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:04:26 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:222511 Archived-At: > From: Noam Postavsky > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:04:26 -0500 > Cc: Aaron Ecay , Drew Adams , > Emacs developers > > I don't think we should all of a sudden declare "letters" to mean > just [a-zA-Z]. We don't: [:alpha:] nowadays matches much more than just [a-zA-Z]. So indeed, restricting Lisp symbols that way sounds too harsh, almost arbitrary.