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: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:56 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> 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 1441514960 12646 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 04:49:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 04:49:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 06:49:05 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 1ZYRt2-0007C2-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 06:49:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYRt2-0001S9-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYRsz-0001Rx-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYRsw-0002VQ-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:43806) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYRsv-0002VL-SU; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6DF161010; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:57 -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 sQ7zs64mwHvs; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24D7161015; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:56 -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 2dFtg6YWQ3Ch; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:56 -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 B1A1B161010; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 21:48:56 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: 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:189641 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Those that represent symbol quotations in doc strings should be removed. They work fine just as they are, and in some ways they work better than the straight quotes do. Users can see them as straight quotes if they like. There is not a strong argument for removing them.