From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:14:55 +1200 Message-ID: References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210912165143.5BC1E20A5E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <47d6e9a6-f334-eda9-2e08-0a946e51fc4a@yandex.ru> <874kaoj3w8.fsf@gnus.org> <83mtogelbm.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15711"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 14 04:17:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mPy0Z-0003n1-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 04:17:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59216 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPy0X-0005x1-Nf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPxyU-0004PF-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:15:09 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-4.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.59]:34577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPxyT-0002mL-20; Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=39684 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-4.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mPxyJ-00025Y-Db; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:14:55 +1200 Original-Received: from ip-203-94-48-127.kinect.net.nz ([203.94.48.127]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:14:55 +1200 In-Reply-To: <83mtogelbm.fsf@gnu.org> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- Received-SPF: pass client-ip=60.234.4.59; envelope-from=psainty@orcon.net.nz; helo=smtp-4.orcon.net.nz X-Spam_score_int: -11 X-Spam_score: -1.2 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_05=-0.5, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274679 Archived-At: On 2021-09-14 00:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > When we had this discussion in the past, people said the ` character > looks very ugly on today's displays. That's why we settled on '..'. FWIW, I never really see those quote characters when reading comments in code, because the face change makes the quoted text pop out. I would also vote for considering code comments as more like "code" than "plain text" documentation for these purposes. -Phil