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: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 18:45:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83y27v6w95.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> <87sfy8d7oo.fsf@gnus.org> <9194fc93-fb9c-000f-a35a-321ddd259893@gmx.at> <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> <83pmt790cz.fsf@gnu.org> <41b90a60-04ab-8ef1-24ee-ac30d39640aa@yandex.ru> <837dff8niq.fsf@gnu.org> <8a9a14b9-c562-8813-daea-28108f3173f3@yandex.ru> <8335q38ktr.fsf@gnu.org> <2974ba74db56df1eeb0090cbab5b8177@webmail.orcon.net.nz> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28271"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 17 17:47:27 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 1mRG5G-000778-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56790 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRG5E-0000rW-J1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55016) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRG4G-00006V-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:46:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRG4E-0000wO-N4; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:46:22 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3462 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 1mRG48-0008So-Hh; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:46:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2974ba74db56df1eeb0090cbab5b8177@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (message from Phil Sainty on Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:38:50 +1200) 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:274884 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:38:50 +1200 > From: Phil Sainty > Cc: Dmitry Gutov , rms@gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se, > juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Can we at minimum get confirmation from the people who were arguing > for fancy quotes in those old discussions that they wanted *this* > as well? Because if those people weren't trying to change elisp > comments, then I don't think the old decision is relevant here, in > which case nothing would be "reversed" by maintaining the traditional > quoting style. People are arguing not only about Lisp comments, they are also arguing about Git commit log messages, using other quoting styles, and using `..' everywhere. So I no longer have a clear idea what this is about.