From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@stromeko.de>
Subject: Should we use `symbol' or 'symbol' in Emacs change logs?
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:10:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tvczf1l.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
Achim pointed to a recent change about quotes in the GNU coding
standards, and suggests that the change justifies using 'symbol'
instead of `symbol' in Emacs change logs.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#index-left-quote
To me, this is about the way GNU programs output the quote char,
not about conventions for symbols used within the program, so my
reading is that Emacs change logs should stick on using `symbol'
rather than 'symbol'.
This seems to be confirmed by the fact that lisp-mode.el still
highlight `symbol' with `font-lock-constant-face'.
Am I reading it wrong or am I correct that there is no change
in Emacs policy regarding the quotation of symbols in change logs
(and in docstrings)?
Thanks,
--
Bastien
next reply other threads:[~2014-05-29 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-29 17:10 Bastien [this message]
2014-05-29 18:29 ` Should we use `symbol' or 'symbol' in Emacs change logs? Stefan Monnier
2014-05-29 18:49 ` Bastien
2014-05-29 19:20 ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-29 19:52 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-29 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-29 20:33 ` Bastien
2014-05-29 21:48 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-30 6:43 ` Achim Gratz
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871tvczf1l.fsf@bzg.ath.cx \
--to=bzg@gnu.org \
--cc=Stromeko@stromeko.de \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).