From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:09:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20170919180944.GB19168@ACM> References: <83377mls4d.fsf@gnu.org> <20170919173511.GA19168@ACM> <83bmm6h8vr.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505844992 14515 195.159.176.226 (19 Sep 2017 18:16:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:16:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 19 20:16:26 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1duN4L-0003T4-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44728 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duN4T-0007um-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duN4M-0007uH-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duN4I-0003YH-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ocolin.muc.de ([193.149.48.4]:11255 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1duN4I-0003VP-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 4294 invoked by uid 3782); 19 Sep 2017 18:16:18 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C6659.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.102.89]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20701 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Sep 2017 18:09:45 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83bmm6h8vr.fsf@gnu.org> 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 [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:218529 Archived-At: Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 20:54:16 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:35:11 +0000 > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > This is rather sudden, leaving not much time for last minute > > enhancements. > Is it necessarily bad? > > Can we please have a user option in Emacs 26 to disable curly quote > > translation in messages and doc strings? > I thought we already had that: text-quoting-style. It is not a user option, and it is not documented in the Emacs manual, with the result that anybody who needs it has a far harder time finding it than she should. It is also rather complicated, and lacks a prime property that such a variable should have, namely that nil mean "no translation". -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).