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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: 30217@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:17:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180122221743.GB4888@ACM> (raw)

Hello, Emacs.

In the new NEWS in the recent pretest, at L1381 we have:

    ** To avoid confusion caused by "smart quotes", the reader no longer
    accepts Lisp symbols which begin with the following quotation
    characters: `'�""�� � � , unless they are escaped with backslash.
                                     ^^^^

, which leaves it unclear whether it's the "smart quotes" or the Lisp
symbols which need escaping.

I suggest replacing "they" with either "these quotes" or "these symbols"
depending on the desired meaning.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).





             reply	other threads:[~2018-01-22 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-22 22:17 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2018-01-22 22:42 ` bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 Drew Adams
2018-01-23  0:42   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23  0:56     ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23  1:40       ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23  6:07         ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23  6:21           ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 12:54           ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 15:53             ` Drew Adams
2018-01-23 23:00               ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-23 23:19                 ` Drew Adams
2018-01-24  0:02                   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-01-28 15:52                     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 18:52                       ` Drew Adams
2018-02-02 19:08                         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-02 21:37                           ` Drew Adams
2018-02-02 22:14                             ` Ista Zahn
2018-02-02 22:35                               ` Noam Postavsky

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