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  • * bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings
    @ 2015-09-13 15:45 Drew Adams
      2015-09-13 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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      0 siblings, 3 replies; 35+ messages in thread
    From: Drew Adams @ 2015-09-13 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: 21472
    
    Emacs Info manuals have long used double-quotes for two things:
    
    * Setting off terms that are defined (e.g., glossary terms).
      (This is presumably the case for the occurrence of "codepages"
      in this same node.)
    
    * Programming strings - e.g. Lisp strings (including file-name strings).
    
    In (emacs) `Coding Sytems', at least, it seems that Curly-Quote Mania
    has struck another nasty blow:
    
       In addition to converting various representations of non-ASCII
     characters, a coding system can perform end-of-line conversion.  Emacs
     handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
     newline ("unix"), carriage-return linefeed ("dos"), and just
     carriage-return ("mac").
    
    Why curly double-quotes here?  Either those quoted names are supposed
    to be Lisp strings or they are proper names.  In the latter case they
    should not be quoted at all, and they should be properly capitalized.
    In the former case (which is what I'm guessing is meant), plain ASCII
    double-quote chars should be used.
    
    Please don't confuse users this way, and make them guess what is meant.
    Get it straight, please.
    
    Plain ASCII double-quote chars should always be used for strings.
    
    In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
     of 2015-08-16 on LEG570
    Bzr revision: f7ee23e587b01f179284b5554c67d579a2def676
    Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
    Configured using:
     `configure --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32 --enable-checking=3Dyes,glyphs'
    
    
    
    
    
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    2015-09-16 15:16       ` Drew Adams
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    2015-09-13 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-13 21:11   ` Drew Adams
    2015-09-14  6:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-14 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
    2015-09-15 15:57 ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-15 16:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-15 16:22     ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-15 23:48       ` Drew Adams
    2015-09-15 16:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-15 19:15     ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-15 23:48       ` Drew Adams
    2015-09-16  6:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16  7:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16  7:48         ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-16 10:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-15 23:48     ` Drew Adams
    2015-09-15 23:48   ` Drew Adams
    2015-09-16  7:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16  7:49       ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-16 10:07         ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16 15:31           ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-16 17:18             ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16 18:27               ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-16 18:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-16 20:31                   ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-17  4:46                     ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-17  5:21                       ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-17  6:03                         ` Eli Zaretskii
    2015-09-17  7:21                           ` Paul Eggert
    2015-09-17  7:35                             ` Eli Zaretskii
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