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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 26299@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:44:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70f7b182-ca55-499c-8afe-6bd4aef370a1@default> (raw)

As one user, I find the adoption of `…' instead of `...' to be a
retrogression, not an improvement.  It is far less readable.  Just one
opinion.

Compare, as one example among zillions:

 -- Macro: with-help-window buffer-name body…

with

 -- Macro: with-help-window buffer-name body...

I cannot imagine what someone thought, when making this change.  Did it
come just because we _can_ now use that Unicode character?  That's not
a reason that we _should_ use it in such contexts.

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=3D/c/usr --host=3Di686-pc-mingw32'





             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-29 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-29 14:44 Drew Adams [this message]
2017-03-30  3:40 ` bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info npostavs
2017-03-30 13:49   ` Drew Adams
2017-03-30 14:34     ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-30 14:56       ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12  2:49         ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 14:24           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 14:52             ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 15:09               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 15:18                 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 16:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:13                     ` Drew Adams
2019-09-29  3:21 ` Stefan Kangas

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