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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274823 Archived-At: > Well, we already have hundreds of quotes 'like this' in both Lisp and > C files, so if highlighting that is a problem, let's work on that, > because reverting all those hundreds of quotes sounds like a lot of > code churn. Speaking of Lisp files (I've no opinion about C etc.), it was a waste of time (it was churn) to have purged the files of `...' in the first place. "Let's work on that" by reverting the misguided (IMO) switch from `...' to '...'. =20 > > I don't think the ` character is "ugly" -- that Markdown (for > > instance) uses it for similar purposes (but as `...`) shows that > > it's a character that people are comfortable with using in > > semi-structured non-plain-text files like source code files. >=20 > We've had this argument, and I'd prefer not to have it again. No need to repeat the argument - I agree. Let's just reverse the reversal - get back to using `...'. > And if we allow people to do what they want, then we have that > already, so I see no reason to argue about conventions no one will > follow. People followed the `...' convention pretty well for decades, no? It's simple to type (vs curly), simple to recognize/parse, simple to fontify, simple to search for. It's wonderful. What's wrong with it? Someone thinks it's ugly, and people new to Emacs aren't used to it.