From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:11:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E8A49C.6050704@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m360wnqqqh.fsf@gnus.org>
On 03/15/2016 04:13 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> >There is plenty of precedent for straight quoting in other text files
>> >in Emacs, as well as in etc/NEWS itself before today's changes
> Is that because you changed `this' into curly quotes
No, I first changed etc/NEWS to use straight quotes, and switched to
curved quotes only after what I understood to be John's suggestion to
that effect. However, later discussion indicated that straight quotes
were more popular, so I switched back.
Although grave quotes are popular Emacs source code they have never been
the only style for all text, and straight quotes (though of course not
perfect) are a better choice for plain text intended for users.
There is longstanding precedent for using straight quotes in some Emacs
news items. It's not just etc/NEWS before the recent round of changes;
for example, the NEWS entry for Emacs 1.4 (in etc/NEWS.1-17), circa
1985, uses straight quotes for its only quoted string, presumably to
distinguish the quotes from the grave accents elsewhere in the entry.
It shouldn't be a problem for users if NEWS uses straight quotes from
here on out.
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[not found] ` <E1afUcV-0000iS-4N@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-03-14 15:44 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation John Wiegley
2016-03-14 16:31 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 16:39 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 16:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:19 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 17:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-14 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 18:32 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 19:14 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 19:29 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 20:47 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 20:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-15 0:30 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-15 22:21 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-15 23:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-15 23:56 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-16 0:11 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2016-03-16 0:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-16 8:16 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-16 17:55 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-16 21:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-16 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-16 23:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 20:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-03-15 0:39 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:50 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-14 19:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 19:16 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 19:39 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-14 19:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-14 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-14 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-14 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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