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: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55E886A0.8090907@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20150831061236.27796.57762@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55E3F3AD.2010602@yandex.ru> <55E3F6B6.20205@cs.ucla.edu> <55E3F88A.50003@yandex.ru> <55E3F9D7.6040601@cs.ucla.edu> <55E64B4B.3030006@cs.ucla.edu> <55E86963.3060609@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441302209 24226 80.91.229.3 (3 Sep 2015 17:43:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 03 19:43:21 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 1ZXYXe-0006RJ-BW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:43:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYXd-0001Wk-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:43:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYXP-0001WN-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYXK-000781-RY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:45194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXYXK-000778-Lr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C921607B6; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:57 -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 gNotJVqQClJ2; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F97160FD3; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -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 AGv53M9bFhUn; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -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 5DAB31607B6; Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: <55E86963.3060609@yandex.ru> 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:189531 Archived-At: Dmitry Gutov wrote: > They aren't markup, because you insist that they "stand for themselves" They=E2=80=99re both. They=E2=80=99re markup that typically stand for th= emselves when=20 generating text, and that=E2=80=99s a win over markup that doesn=E2=80=99= t do that. It=E2=80=99s like=20 Markdown=E2=80=99s syntax for URLs: you just type http://example.com and = it just works.=20 (Emacs docstrings would do well to support that idea too, but I=E2=80=99= m digressing....)