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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
	"rudalics@gmx.at" <rudalics@gmx.at>,
	"gregory@heytings.org" <gregory@heytings.org>,
	"monnier@iro.umontreal.ca" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	"dgutov@yandex.ru" <dgutov@yandex.ru>,
	"larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"juri@linkov.net" <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 16:02:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB54884C380B20D61699F268F8F3DE9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dfe70ki.fsf@gnu.org>

> We don't want Unicode quotes in NEWS, because NEWS (and other text
> files we have, but NEWS, PROBLEMS, and DEBUG in particular) needs to
> be readable on any text-mode terminal.  It's important to let users
> read those without problems.

Doesn't the same need apply to help & doc (manuals)?

"important to read without problems" is one of the
points raised against the change to curly quotes -
the "recognition" problem.

Add to that problem the difficulty of typing those
chars and searching for them...

What's good for the NEWS, PROBLEMS, and DEBUG
goose is also good for the help and doc gander.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-18 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 159+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [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
2021-09-18 16:13                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
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
2021-09-18 16:02                                                         ` Drew Adams
2021-09-18 16:02                                                       ` Drew Adams
2021-09-18 16:01                                                     ` Drew Adams
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
2021-09-18 16:02                                                     ` Drew Adams [this message]
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
2021-09-19 17:42                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
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
2021-09-17 12:11                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 12:30                                                   ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-17 16:21                                                     ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-17 16:40                                                       ` João Távora
2021-09-17 16:44                                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-17 17:47                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 18:42                                                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-09-17 18:51                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 19:14                                                       ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-17 19:22                                                         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-17 20:32                                                           ` Manuel Giraud
2021-09-17 22:16                                                             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-18 13:45                                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-18 16:03                                                               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-18 17:25                                                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-18 17:46                                                                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 23:11                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-18 23:22                                                                   ` Drew Adams
2021-09-19 12:26                                                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-18  5:43                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18  8:33                                                             ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18  8:53                                                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-17 18:09                                                   ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-17 18:09                                           ` Drew Adams
2021-09-16 16:18                                   ` Drew Adams
2021-09-16 10:50                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 11:39                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 14:12                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 16:20                                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-16 16:18                                     ` Drew Adams
2021-09-16 11:25                                 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-17  0:16                                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-17  0:27                                   ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-09-17  6:34                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 10:44                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-17 11:11                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 11:25                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-17 12:09                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 12:38                                             ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-17 12:59                                               ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-17 15:45                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 13:07                                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-17 13:44                                               ` João Távora
2021-09-17 15:49                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-17 16:33                                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-17 18:10                                               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-17 13:18                                           ` Amin Bandali
2021-09-17 18:09                                       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-16  4:53                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16  8:51                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16  9:11                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 10:34                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-16 11:35                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 13:38                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-15 18:48                     ` martin rudalics
2021-09-15 19:05                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16  6:56                         ` martin rudalics
2021-09-16  7:11                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-16 16:18                             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-13 11:51       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-13 12:05         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 12:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 12:29             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-13 12:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-13 12:56           ` Dmitry Gutov

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