From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:00:59 +0300 Message-ID: <831tdz8yf8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <55F83FDF.2070202@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442332999 28783 80.91.229.3 (15 Sep 2015 16:03:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 18:03:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1ZbshJ-00035a-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:03:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbshJ-0000nM-8d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbshF-0000me-5k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbshB-0002Az-SQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:41262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbshB-0002As-P2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbshB-00034H-LP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:03:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:03:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 21472 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 21472-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B21472.144233292311683 (code B ref 21472); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:03:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 21472) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Sep 2015 16:02:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33472 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbsgE-00032C-Ht for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:53722) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbsgC-00031l-IU for 21472@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NUQ0090072VBU00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 21472@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:00:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NUQ0085G75MYV70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:00:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <55F83FDF.2070202@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:106599 Archived-At: > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:57:19 -0700 > > Although the manual was correct as it was, it could be written to avoid the need > for the quotes, and this should help avoid confusion like the problem Drew > reported. I went through the Emacs, Elisp, and Elisp intro manuals looking for > this sort of problem and fixed the ones that I found in commit > ef7dbdf5873bf0a1f3f0e64e5d019e74d5b15b9e. The sentence Drew mentioned now looks > like this: > > Emacs handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file: > newline (Unix), carriage-return linefeed (DOS), and just carriage-return (Mac). > > which avoids the quoting issue entirely. If this means that we should avoid quoting text just because Drew doesn't like a certain type of quotes, then I object.