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[76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e12sm19562917pat.19.2016.03.14.13.50.33 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:50:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id EF2DD137D6DF9; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:50:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56E7235A.8010305@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:47:22 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::235 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:201763 Archived-At: >>>>> Paul Eggert writes: > I'm afraid that straight quoting 'like this' is the simplest way out of this > mess. It is not a great solution, but it is the simplest and the other > approaches all have problems that may be worse. This is why the patch I > originally installed today used straight quoting. How about if we simply go > back to it? I.e., revert commit 4235d2d9eaa3b64d3172f6c60f1e71704795af89 and > then move on. Why is this the "simplest way"? Just for a visual correspondence with what we display in other contexts (PDF and within Emacs)? I would much rather we kept `quotes' for NEWS then, rather than having an intermediary 'quotes' form, whose only reason for existing is mere resemblance. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2