From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:28:29 +0300 Message-ID: <83czpcek2a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210912165143.5BC1E20A5E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <47d6e9a6-f334-eda9-2e08-0a946e51fc4a@yandex.ru> <83v934emk7.fsf@gnu.org> <09a3ab74-d274-52af-843b-3efe538866ed@yandex.ru> <87o88wd6k9.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27383"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 13 14:34:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mPlAK-0006sZ-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:34:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36566 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPlAH-0000U3-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPl4f-00043B-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPl4e-0001Wd-Qx; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2168 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPl4d-0000kn-Sk; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:28:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o88wd6k9.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:05:26 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274639 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:05:26 +0200 > > And as a practical matter, a quick grep shows that we have more > than 10K lines that match ";;.*`", so the code churn would be huge. I do not intend to change all of them. I wouldn't have changed those few places, either, had Stefan Kangas not decide to fix the quoting there. If we are fixing quoting, we might as well do it right, or not at all. > So changing this would mean that we lose functionality, and also > makes vc archaeology more difficult at the same time, so it's a > lose-lose proposition in my eyes. I didn't propose anything, I just changed a few lines that were touched several hours before that anyway.