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: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:39:45 +0300 Message-ID: <838rzwagvy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20210912165143.5BC1E20A5E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <47d6e9a6-f334-eda9-2e08-0a946e51fc4a@yandex.ru> <83v934emk7.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfy8d7oo.fsf@gnus.org> <9194fc93-fb9c-000f-a35a-321ddd259893@gmx.at> <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> <117e3ea6-5348-1320-138f-5bf7fc8fd85a@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24625"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, larsi@gnus.org, juri@linkov.net To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 13:41:02 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 1mQplG-00069L-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47764 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQplE-0007qp-Hx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33292) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQpk2-00070g-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQpk1-0006pJ-Fg; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3215 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 1mQpk1-0003Aw-2Z; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:39:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <117e3ea6-5348-1320-138f-5bf7fc8fd85a@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:50:32 +0300) 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:274805 Archived-At: > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Stefan Kangas , > juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:50:32 +0300 > > > - We declare something else as the official style. I personally have > > grown fond of (a subset of) Markdown, so I'd vote for `...` (and > > encourage extending this to a few more conventions, e.g. so we can > > distinguish code from prose in comments), but (a subset of) Org style > > would also make a lot of sense. > > `...` is fine with me, or anything else that looks like markup ('...' > will result in more annoying false positives). But it will result in a > lot more work across the board. Quoting `like this` flies in the face of the main reason why we moved from `..'. If `..` is okay, we might as well go back to the original `..'. I do wonder, though, where were these arguments back when someone, I think Paul Eggert, said that ` looks ugly on modern terminals, which triggered a lot of changes, in addition to this one. Was all that in vain?