From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, 23372@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:10:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bn4u7tqj.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eg9rzh3q.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:43:53 +0300")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It is easy to make a variable into a defcustom; the inverse is generally
> much harder.
That _is_ a rather strong argument...
The main reason I'd like a customization option along with the introduction of
the feature, is that it's a departure from *very* long-standiing practice, so
unless you happen to like Unicode quotes, I'm predicting that several people
will want a way to get back the sort of display they've been used to seeing
since antiquity.
Do any others object to having a customization option along with release of
the feature? I'm cross-posting this to Emacs-devel to get more opinions.
The question is: Should `text-quoting-style' be customizable in 25.1, or
should it be a variable, thus requiring Lisp code to change it for now?
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2016-04-27 19:10 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-04-28 21:45 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize Kaushal Modi
2016-04-29 21:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 10:37 ` bug#23365 and Org-mode for 25.1 Phillip Lord
2016-04-29 21:23 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-30 7:48 ` Phillip Lord
2016-04-30 7:51 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-29 12:54 ` bug#23372: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize Nicolas Petton
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