From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:29 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55389509.60100@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu> <5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu> <83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbgp49ve.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp6x45x5.fsf@gnu.org> <5536ACB3.9040707@yandex.ru> <83lhhk4phe.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8y0jmba.fsf@petton.fr> <6837d058-ba18-461b-8af6-2c4e6d767348@default> <55383081.4010106@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429771935 8951 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 06:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov To: Drew Adams , Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 08:52:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1YlAzU-00064V-SX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:52:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAzU-0003mu-6z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAzR-0003mR-0z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAzL-0002hQ-Rp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:52:00 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAtf-0000zt-5G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAtf-000058-0j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:46:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20385 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20385-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20385.142977154132736 (code B ref 20385); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 06:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 06:45:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37019 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAtH-0008Vv-PZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:45:40 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:34426) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlAtE-0008Va-Dg for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 02:45:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED484A60010; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Jmn3Td61cTKZ; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EC733A6000F; Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:29 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101905 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > British > and American usages tends to be reversed wrt which curly quotes, > single or double, are used at the first level: Sure, and the tradition in many GNU projects is to use American-style quoting for regular English text, and British-style quoting for code. For example, the Emacs 24.5 manual's info files quote ordinary text like this: Emacs occupies a “graphical window” and quote code like this: A description of an imaginary variable, ‘electric-future-map’. Changing doc strings to look like the latter will better implement the longstanding style for documentation in GNU projects. It's what quoting `like this' was originally intended to do (and *did* do, with circa-1965 draft ASCII). It's an eminently reasonable way to quote code in documentation.