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: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:43:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0je7814.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8735q5yi63.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czp9by3s.fsf@gnu.org> <05cbffe0-f89b-ff54-64f5-cd1d11bac4f5@yandex.ru> <831r5pbt7j.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnnhacy4.fsf@gnu.org> <40937e22-994f-466c-87be-4f70a522118a@yandex.ru> <83o88t9kgb.fsf@gnu.org> <9672aeae-a969-1526-003b-abb1b00b5b49@yandex.ru> <87sfy43dlt.fsf@gnus.org> <1a0f9230b7d75e426474@heytings.org> <1a0f9230b71c3d2eff86@heytings.org> <835yuz8na8.fsf@gnu.org> <1a0f9230b7571d4c3293@heytings.org> <831r5n8kqa.fsf@gnu.org> <1a0f9230b74fe15d1abf@heytings.org> <1a0f9230b76ce1574e10@heytings.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2751"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, gregory@heytings.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 07:45:26 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 1mRTAD-0000Vp-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33578 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRTAC-000214-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRT8v-0007l3-Ms for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:44:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRT8u-0006ky-Ru; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2862 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 1mRT8u-0001hN-EF; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 01:44:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400) 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:274955 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Yuri Khan , Eli Zaretskii , > Stefan Kangas , Emacs developers > , martin rudalics , Dmitry Gutov > , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Juri > Linkov > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400 > > > The point is not to discuss whether Unicode makes a better distinction > > between different kinds of quotation marks and apostrophe. It does, > > obviously. But (1) these characters are difficult to enter on most > > keyboards, (2) it is not realistic to expect that keyboards will change, as > > 99.9% users do not need or even understand those subtleties, and word > > 100% agreement. My preference for using a well-defined convention based > on some existing markup language is that the text is then plain ASCII > (and hence easy to type and to display) but we can additionally prettify > it in a reliable way if the user cares about it. The GNU preferences are described in standards.texi, and we should follow them, not our personal preferences.