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 15:26:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83ee9sek61.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13292"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 13 15:11:06 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 1mPljl-0003Hg-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:11:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPljk-0003QX-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 09:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48366) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPl2a-0001Kp-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:26:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPl2a-00008Y-2n; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:26:28 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2027 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 1mPl2W-0006x1-CE; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 08:26:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <09a3ab74-d274-52af-843b-3efe538866ed@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:51:32 +0300) 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:274646 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:51:32 +0300 > > > We decided to use this style in plain-text documentation long ago. > > IME code comments are not the same as plain-text documentation. Then what does? The only place where we must leave `..' alone is in doc strings, everything else is fair play. > Aside from highlighting, we have other code that relies on unambiguous > markup. Emacs Lisp completion code also enters "symbol completion" mode > (so to speak) after you type '`', allowing one to more easily input an > existing symbol. I didn't say anything about completion text. > > Comments, NEWS, PROBLEMS, DEBUG, commit log messages (thus the > > generated ChangeLog files), and any other form of plain-text > > documentation. > > Having docstring markup in plain comments is fairly common across > languages, I think. Again, I don't see how this is relevant to the issue at hand.