From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20160314154123.2684.74715@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <56E6E764.9090500@cs.ucla.edu> <89ba6063-e962-7590-39be-c4fb28f394ea@yandex.ru> <56E703D9.8000607@cs.ucla.edu> <56E70D7C.9080709@cs.ucla.edu> <56E7235A.8010305@cs.ucla.edu> <56E757B6.1010905@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1458086235 18600 80.91.229.3 (15 Mar 2016 23:57:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:57:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 00:57:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1afypj-00006N-V9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afypj-0007VD-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afypg-0007Tg-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afypc-0005Vw-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:32960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afypc-0005V2-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u2FNukEA009113 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:56:46 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u2FNuki3010840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:56:46 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u2FNujU8017050; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:56:45 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6744.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201791 Archived-At: > > 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 >=20 > 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?