From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: raman@google.com (T.V Raman) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? 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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::229 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:195174 Archived-At: Paul, Thank you for being the essence of sanity as usual -- :-) Paul Eggert writes: > On 11/24/2015 07:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > is something different about that particular doc > > string as opposed to other doc strings which document symbol values? > Yes, that particular doc string is talking about quoting, so it's > reasonable for the doc string to go into greater lengths and to say when > it's quoting symbols as opposed to strings, to help avoid the kind of > confusion that started this thread. Doc strings that talk about other > issues don't need to be so careful. -- --