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#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:46:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83a8xyyqf3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1429555155-4695-1-git-send-email-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <5535974D.9050207@cs.ucla.edu> <5535C7F3.7020107@cs.ucla.edu> <83618p5y9w.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbgp49ve.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp6x45x5.fsf@gnu.org> <5536ACB3.9040707@yandex.ru> <83lhhk4phe.fsf@gnu.org> <55394E30.8040307@yandex.ru> <83oamezk77.fsf@gnu.org> <5539B2B2.7050709@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429858050 28105 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2015 06:47:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 08:47:13 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 1YlXOI-0005k0-Uw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 08:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXOI-00082d-CS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50059) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXOE-000811-SL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXOA-0002iS-DA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXOA-0002iL-B3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXO9-0004uM-Vg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20385 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20385-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20385.142985798918157 (code B ref 20385); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20385) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Apr 2015 06:46:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38262 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXNd-0004iN-6T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:56475) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlXNb-0004ab-4A for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NNA00400SQEFB00@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 20385@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:41:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NNA00OCNT8Z1E70@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:41:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5539B2B2.7050709@yandex.ru> 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: 140.186.70.43 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:101970 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 06:04:18 +0300 > From: Dmitry Gutov > CC: 20385@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu > > On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> Who are those people, and why do they want that? > > > > Those who follow Markus Kuhn's advice, read here: > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html > > I think that's typographical advice, and not necessarily applicable to > text editors. Nevertheless, many people want Texinfo, Emacs, and GNU in general to follow that advice. > It's pretty common to use slightly awkward (but easy to type and > unambiguous) markup in source code, and then convert it to something > nicer in generated documentation. I personally have no problem with the traditional `..' quoting style, I'm just trying to explain why IMO display-time tricks will not necessarily pacify at least some of those who want the ‘..’ style.