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: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 22:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0b657423-49dc-42fa-9b45-49e3dd49ad0c@default> References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441515983 25901 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 05:06:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 05:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert , rms@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 07:06:12 2015 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 1ZYS9b-0007FS-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 07:06:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYS9b-0004t7-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYS9X-0004sr-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYS9S-0001Ev-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:28230) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYS9S-0001Ec-Lb; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t8655qVw031840 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 05:05:52 GMT Original-Received: from userv0122.oracle.com (userv0122.oracle.com [156.151.31.75]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8655pTf011457 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 05:05:52 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0014.oracle.com (abhmp0014.oracle.com [141.146.116.20]) by userv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t8655pPK016198; Sun, 6 Sep 2015 05:05:51 GMT In-Reply-To: <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] 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:189642 Archived-At: > > Those that represent symbol quotations in doc strings should be removed= . >=20 > They work fine just as they are, and in some ways they work better than t= he > straight quotes do. Users can see them as straight quotes if they like. > > There is not a strong argument for removing them. No strong argument was ever given for adding them. There was never _any_ argument given for adding them, beyond your complaint that you find `...' ugly. You've turned Emacs upside down and inside out, to make it do what you want. Users and Emacs Dev will be dealing with the aftermath for a long time to come. Alas, no one stopped you in your crusade, so here we are.