From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:49 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55931641.5080705@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> <877fqnzpno.fsf@gnu.org> <5590493C.8000007@yandex.ru> <87381bzife.fsf@gnu.org> <75f2fe0f-f15e-4af8-b9ae-0ddc9231c9ab@default> <83a8vi60ke.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbe64jyt.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnfx5340.fsf@gnu.org> <83ioa52km7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435702874 23896 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 22:21:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:21:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 01 00:21:04 2015 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 1ZA3tl-0005GY-GA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3tk-0006C3-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3th-0006By-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3tg-0001Rw-EA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:50239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZA3ta-0001Qv-QG; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68714160176; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id mhi4VawbAuBK; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973FD160660; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id RQwvWkFqyLfd; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-100-32-155-148.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [100.32.155.148]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6033F160176; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:20:49 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <83ioa52km7.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 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:187694 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Quoting `like this' > in plain-text documents has been the GNU style for decades. It certainly was, but other key GNU projects have switched to quoting 'like this' in ASCII English text files, and Emacs should do something similar. Several of Emacs's plain-text ASCII documents already do it that way, and at some point we should convert the remainder so that Emacs is consistent with itself and with other GNU projects.