From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: raman <raman@google.com>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:17:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wpt7m1hs.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834mgbz7iu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:28:25 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It doesn't. It tells me it's a symbol. Why? because of the way it is quoted:
> with single quotes, not double quotes. Single quotes is how we mark symbols
> in doc strings.
Raman, When you say "reading the online documentation" in your original
report, do you mean the *Help* text, or the HTML generated for the manual? I
want to be sure we're all talking about the same thing.
If you see `foo' written (for example, in *Help*), it is always a symbol
(using either those characters, or fancy Unicode single quotes). As Eli says,
double-quotes are used to denote strings.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 23:40 Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? T.V Raman
2015-11-24 0:21 ` Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-24 0:25 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 3:44 ` raman
2015-11-24 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 16:21 ` raman
2015-11-24 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-24 23:17 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2015-11-24 23:38 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25 0:04 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-25 0:07 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-25 0:10 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 18:10 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 18:21 ` T.V Raman
2015-11-24 2:18 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 3:23 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 3:50 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 5:54 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-24 18:07 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-24 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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