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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:56:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f84fc649-501c-43f1-beda-9ed38d193cee@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m360wnqqqh.fsf@gnus.org>

> > There is plenty of precedent for straight quoting in other text files
> > in Emacs, as well as in etc/NEWS itself before today's changes
> 
> Is that because you changed `this' into curly quotes, and then people
> protested, and then you changed it into 'this' and people threw up their
> arms in disgust, and nothing further was done?

I was going to point out the same thing.  "Plenty of precedent"
by whom and since when?



  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-15 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20160314154123.2684.74715@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1afUcV-0000iS-4N@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-03-14 15:44   ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation John Wiegley
2016-03-14 16:31     ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 16:39       ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 16:42         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:19           ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 17:37             ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:53               ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-14 18:10                 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 18:32           ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:48               ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 18:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:45             ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 19:14               ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 19:29                 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 20:47                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 20:50                     ` John Wiegley
2016-03-15  0:30                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-15 22:21                         ` John Wiegley
2016-03-15 23:13                         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-15 23:56                           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-03-16  0:11                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-16  0:52                             ` Drew Adams
2016-03-16  8:16                               ` John Wiegley
2016-03-16 17:55                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-16 21:26                                 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-16 23:37                                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-16 23:41                                     ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 20:56                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-15  0:39                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:50             ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-14 19:11             ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 19:16             ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 19:39               ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 19:47                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:03       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:24         ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:42           ` Eli Zaretskii

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