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: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:55 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5654A82F.8070303@cs.ucla.edu> References: <22099.41981.70381.495217@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <22099.44650.934181.371319@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <83h9kcysmv.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1uzz93q.fsf@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 1448389594 8287 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2015 18:26:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 18:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 24 19:26:24 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 1a1IIJ-0003e6-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40669 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1IIK-0001Mt-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1I3T-0000MN-DJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1I3S-0000OS-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:50609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1I3M-0000NL-G7; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:10:56 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046971601C0; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:56 -0800 (PST) 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 alDXsxxhM-S4; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515F71606CC; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:55 -0800 (PST) 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 gLVVtYlKdWEq; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 35CEC1601C0; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:10:55 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: <83d1uzz93q.fsf@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:195175 Archived-At: On 11/24/2015 07:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > is something different about that particular doc > string as opposed to other doc strings which document symbol values? Yes, that particular doc string is talking about quoting, so it's reasonable for the doc string to go into greater lengths and to say when it's quoting symbols as opposed to strings, to help avoid the kind of confusion that started this thread. Doc strings that talk about other issues don't need to be so careful.