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: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:21 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55EE1B01.3010201@cs.ucla.edu> References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> <55EBC5B8.80208@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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441667877 6909 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2015 23:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 23:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 08 01:17:48 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 1ZZ5fW-0002Jv-71 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 01:17:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ5fV-0003IY-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ5fD-0003IG-ND for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ5fA-0007zc-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:60607) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ5fA-0007yT-CP; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 19:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B927F16100C; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:22 -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 W6VSASqQoWyW; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC586161048; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:21 -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 8XksvYg_36M1; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:21 -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 CCBC816100C; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:21 -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:189683 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > It was not right to put curly quotes in the doc strings. > Please undo that change. The curved quotes eased Emacs maintainence for me, but judging from recen= t=20 remarks on the mailing list I'm in the minority in preferring that style = so I=20 just now undid almost all that change in the master branch. I kept a few= curved=20 quotes, e.g., in =E2=80=9CBah=C3=A1=E2=80=99=C3=AD=E2=80=9D, which I hope= do not ruffle too many feathers.