From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at,
dgutov@yandex.ru, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
larsi@gnus.org
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:16:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mR1Yj-0002iw-KN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk0jhd2r4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:59 -0400)
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> - We declare `...' as the official style. This matches the historical
> use, so it requires no changes, AFAIK (other than reverting Eli's
> commit, obviously).
That IS the official style, in Emacs Lisp files, and we should not
change that. We should use `...' in comments.
If the change make Font-Lock mode highlight '...' like `...' in Emacs
Lisp mode, that isn't necessarily a bad change. It would highlight in
a useful way some code that doesn't follow our official style. That
in itself is an improvement, all else being equal.
Would the change give wrong results in some cases? Maybe. I think
that depends on the details of in which cases it recognizes '...'.
If the cases are narrowly limited, maybe it won't give wrong results
very much.
Text files (whether Text mode or some other mode) are a different
issue. Maybe it is ok to change to quote symbols in them with '..'.
I won't argue against that.
Still, I think we should make highlighting give correct results for
files that use `...' as well as for files that use '...'. That should
be possible if the ... stands for a limited set of possible contents.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
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[not found] ` <20210912165143.5BC1E20A5E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-09-12 22:42 ` master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-13 8:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 2:14 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-13 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 11:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 12:36 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-13 16:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-13 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-15 9:27 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-15 12:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-15 18:46 ` martin rudalics
2021-09-15 16:02 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-15 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 18:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 18:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 21:12 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-15 18:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-15 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-15 20:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-15 21:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-16 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 10:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-16 12:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 13:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 23:20 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-18 0:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 16:19 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-17 14:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-17 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 19:21 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 8:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 13:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 16:03 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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2021-09-18 16:52 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-18 16:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-18 17:07 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-16 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-16 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 14:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 15:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-17 9:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-17 10:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-17 10:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 22:46 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 7:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-09-18 8:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 8:37 ` Adam Sjøgren
2021-09-18 8:44 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-18 8:48 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-18 11:50 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-18 11:54 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-18 16:03 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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2021-09-18 16:01 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-18 8:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 9:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 11:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-09-18 9:28 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-18 10:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 10:27 ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-18 10:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 18:40 ` Juri Linkov
2021-09-18 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 19:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 23:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-19 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-19 10:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-19 17:30 ` Drew Adams
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2021-09-19 17:54 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-21 14:38 ` Jean Louis
2021-09-21 17:04 ` tomas
2021-09-21 17:09 ` tomas
2021-09-24 20:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-19 5:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 10:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-17 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 11:30 ` Gregory Heytings
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2021-09-17 12:30 ` Gregory Heytings
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2021-09-18 23:22 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-19 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
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2021-09-18 8:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 8:53 ` Gregory Heytings
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2021-09-17 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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