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 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/internationa Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:10 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55E9E45E.7090206@cs.ucla.edu> References: <55E9AFEC.9010309@cs.ucla.edu> <20150904162349.GC2991@acm.fritz.box> <55E9D9BB.90905@cs.ucla.edu> <87k2s6t5vx.fsf@fencepost.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 1441391731 32150 80.91.229.3 (4 Sep 2015 18:35:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Emacs Development To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 20:35:24 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 1ZXvpa-0001KF-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34272 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvpa-0006Wy-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvpW-0006Uu-He for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvpT-0005Gf-C3 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:59864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXvpT-0005GR-6y; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57451160FF2; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:14 -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 EiJxEZs6ZUJj; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905D3160FF3; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:13 -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 XYkS5goBU72j; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 78998160673; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:35:13 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <87k2s6t5vx.fsf@fencepost.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:189609 Archived-At: On 09/04/2015 11:07 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > whether the > display/font/whatever warrants specific marking for third-party texts This is not strictly a third-party issue. For example, the Emacs manual is not a third-party text, and it uses curved quotes. True, we could develop a more-complicated mechanism, presumably with more variables to control the added complexity -- for example, we could implement three separate variables to control quotes in diagnostics vs quotes in help buffers vs quotes in info files -- but there are advantages to keeping things simple when user need for the extra complexity has not been demonstrated.