From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created] Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:16:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3paypfz.fsf@jane> References: <83377mls4d.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919173511.GA19168@ACM> <83bmm6h8vr.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919180944.GB19168@ACM> <838thah71i.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919194356.GC19168@ACM> <20170919210925.GF19168@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505881042 10901 195.159.176.226 (20 Sep 2017 04:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 04:17:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: Kaushal Modi , Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 20 06:17:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1duWRn-0002WW-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46590 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duWRu-0000Hj-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duWRo-0000HL-JR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duWRn-00065o-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:44591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duWRj-0005kM-Bo; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 00:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA03FE6C2A; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:17:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id szSpj00zBUK0; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:17:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4C89E6A7F; Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:17:05 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218562 Archived-At: On 2017-09-20, at 01:33, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Alan Mackenzie writes: > >> Can you think of any reason why text-quoting-style isn't suitable for >> "casual use", whatever that is? No? Neither can I. > > I vaguely recall a discussion from 1.5 years ago where it was decided that it > *should* be a user configurable option, since many of us dislike curly quotes > and there is no reason we shouldn't be able to easily turn them off. > > So, unless someone has a reason to offer, I'd like to make this configurable > in 26.1. +1 And for the matter, I'm one of the persons which does not like curl quotes (they broke isearching for keys in Info, didn't they?) -- Marcin Borkowski