From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:00:35 +0300 Message-ID: <831r5m6td8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8735q5yi63.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83czp9by3s.fsf@gnu.org> <05cbffe0-f89b-ff54-64f5-cd1d11bac4f5@yandex.ru> <831r5pbt7j.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnnhacy4.fsf@gnu.org> <40937e22-994f-466c-87be-4f70a522118a@yandex.ru> <83o88t9kgb.fsf@gnu.org> <9672aeae-a969-1526-003b-abb1b00b5b49@yandex.ru> <87sfy43dlt.fsf@gnus.org> <1a0f9230b7d75e426474@heytings.org> <838rzv8ozz.fsf@gnu.org> <83czp676df.fsf@gnu.org> <837dfe70ki.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, gregory@heytings.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 13:03:09 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mRY7h-0009F9-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:03:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49496 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRY7g-0004sM-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52182) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRY5Z-0003vR-Sr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:00:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRY5W-0003lq-E8; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2329 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRY5S-0003ei-Jk; Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:00:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:18:49 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274982 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:18:49 -0700 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, gregory@heytings.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> BTW, as a minor extension to what I did above, I guess we could do > >> something like this if we want Unicode quotes in files like NEWS: > > > > We don't want Unicode quotes in NEWS, because NEWS (and other text > > files we have, but NEWS, PROBLEMS, and DEBUG in particular) needs to > > be readable on any text-mode terminal. It's important to let users > > read those without problems. > > So you would make it conditional on `display-graphic-p' or something to > that effect. No, because we want these files to be readable by "other programs". They are useful for those who don't (yet) have Emacs.