From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55EA5F7B.1020102@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441508399 24883 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 02:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 04:59:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQBD-0002rd-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:59:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQBD-0005hH-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51744) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAv-0005f0-Ir for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAu-0005YR-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51087) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAt-0005X6-9n; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAs-0000A3-Mq; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <55EA5F7B.1020102@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Fri, 4 Sep 2015 20:20:27 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189639 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Since August 25 I by and large stopped inserting curved quotes there, though I > did make an exception more recently for “Bahá’í”. That might be one of the special places where it is proper to have a curly quote in the Emacs sources: as part of a name. But I expect that most of the occurrences are mistakes. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.