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: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:25:59 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <55F1BD27.7030802@cs.ucla.edu> References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> <55EE1B01.3010201@cs.ucla.edu> <55EEDBE7.8050903@yandex.ru> <55EEE97F.1040008@cs.ucla.edu> <55EF5FE3.4020209@yandex.ru> <55EF763E.5060500@cs.ucla.edu> <22000.36504.734886.651251@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <87bndag13h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k2ry6zvq.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: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441905997 7515 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 17:26:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 17:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "T.V Raman" To: David Kastrup , Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 19:26:29 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 1Za5cC-000824-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:26:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za5cB-0004c1-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59814) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za5bu-0004ba-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:26:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za5bt-0003an-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:36350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Za5bo-0003Xh-QE; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F138A161078; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:03 -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 1qmac50PL2LP; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C65161079; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:03 -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 Y59Qxf4xS-i2; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:03 -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 2524D161069; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:03 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <87k2ry6zvq.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:189814 Archived-At: On 09/10/2015 08:46 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > outcommented stuff that would become non-standard when commented back Thanks, I missed those, since I didn=E2=80=99t look at comments. Fixed. > Comments and messages like Thanks, I missed those message instances, as somebody else introduced=20 those curved quotes and I looked only at the curved quotes I=20 introduced. I changed them to use grave quotes just now. It=E2=80=99s OK to use curved quotes in English text in comments. > Well, various text files It=E2=80=99s OK for English text in text files to use curved quotes. In=20 etc/PROBLEMS, the text is showing an Emacs diagnostic as presented to=20 the user. This normally uses curved quotes nowadays, so curved quotes=20 are preferable there. The other curved quotes you mention also look OK. > various messages like Those messages generate info files, which typically use curved quotes=20 nowadays, so curved quotes are appropriate there. > The English adventure "dunnet" Please feel free to go through dunnet and change it to use=20 substitute-command-keys or format-message so that it generates grave=20 quotes for dunnet users who prefer that style. I did not think it worth=20 bothering about, myself.