From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:56:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20160314205621.GI1894@acm.fritz.box> References: <56E6E764.9090500@cs.ucla.edu> <89ba6063-e962-7590-39be-c4fb28f394ea@yandex.ru> <56E703D9.8000607@cs.ucla.edu> <56E70D7C.9080709@cs.ucla.edu> <56E7235A.8010305@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457988844 6962 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2016 20:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 14 21:53:56 2016 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 1afZUv-0003J4-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:53:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afZUu-0002PZ-UF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afZUn-0002GG-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afZUj-00056V-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:44064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1afZUj-00055q-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:53:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 25120 invoked by uid 3782); 14 Mar 2016 20:53:39 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E920E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.146.14]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:53:38 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 14187 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Mar 2016 20:56:21 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56E7235A.8010305@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 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:201764 Archived-At: Hello, Paul. On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 01:47:22PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/14/2016 12:29 PM, John Wiegley wrote: > > Could we render the quotes the way that we currently do for Elisp > > documentation? > Yes, that could be done. We'd need an escape mechanism for the rare > cases where quotes should not be replaced, as in the following lines: Please don't do that. NEWS is a text file, not a markup file. It should remain readable with "anything". [ .... ] > The above would all run afoul of Eli's desire to use other programs to > read etc/NEWS as-is, though. Mine, too. > 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. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).