From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8735q5yi63.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czp9by3s.fsf@gnu.org> <05cbffe0-f89b-ff54-64f5-cd1d11bac4f5@yandex.ru> <831r5pbt7j.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnnhacy4.fsf@gnu.org> <40937e22-994f-466c-87be-4f70a522118a@yandex.ru> <83o88t9kgb.fsf@gnu.org> <9672aeae-a969-1526-003b-abb1b00b5b49@yandex.ru> <87sfy43dlt.fsf@gnus.org> <1a0f9230b7d75e426474@heytings.org> <1a0f9230b71c3d2eff86@heytings.org> <835yuz8na8.fsf@gnu.org> <1a0f9230b7571d4c3293@heytings.org> <831r5n8kqa.fsf@gnu.org> <1a0f9230b74fe15d1abf@heytings.org> <1a0f9230b76ce1574e10@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1924"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Yuri Khan , Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Kangas , Emacs developers , martin rudalics , Dmitry Gutov , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Juri Linkov To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 17 21:23:13 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 1mRJS4-0000Hz-WA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 21:23:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57458 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRJS2-0003Ck-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRJRE-0001gG-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:20593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRJRA-0008Mb-Sh; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 6C2E6440FC1; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id E1548440C6E; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1631906532; bh=JmYB1aryF7JhOIRls9Z+S1bsXE0SrfxaeAouPVA57gs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=UG94XWYvKhCUQaWlX44O0cGX2L4Sx5RvKNqAwILvzwqlKng2nPLAzGGKfQ+alsKxK unIEMKOyDjgxMA4p7qgxZJbhqUNuLpds+928yKsWmjW1yFbpBT3Yk3KAt7kMIgBJod AmEtL2y8ueAo8Iy0LKakezfOfOUWwHwdV+2CXrQ03jfUJysyU9k33YGMuqKHvod+wl d9sESSVPjSqQPHqnSg1IU//ZrKgXtdjh5PHOt0S2pdt7yqA1v/dc9Bicfid4G44tFj /f6hmp7rgavTfexcUyw5VeZhg3VFJTrsPFm8BHCyf+66maxdgRAB8Q1UU1y5OtGjaW beIXmX8rTEUSg== Original-Received: from ceviche (modemcable004.216-203-24.mc.videotron.ca [24.203.216.4]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A138412041A; Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:22:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1a0f9230b76ce1574e10@heytings.org> (Gregory Heytings's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:14:43 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, 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:274926 Archived-At: > The point is not to discuss whether Unicode makes a better distinction > between different kinds of quotation marks and apostrophe. It does, > obviously. But (1) these characters are difficult to enter on most > keyboards, (2) it is not realistic to expect that keyboards will change, as > 99.9% users do not need or even understand those subtleties, and word 100% agreement. My preference for using a well-defined convention based on some existing markup language is that the text is then plain ASCII (and hence easy to type and to display) but we can additionally prettify it in a reliable way if the user cares about it. Stefan