From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol? Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:54:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83d1uzz93q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <22099.41981.70381.495217@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <22099.44650.934181.371319@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <83h9kcysmv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448380540 14407 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2015 15:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: raman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 24 16:55:25 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a1FwA-0006lr-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:55:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1FwB-0005TA-TJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40673) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1Fw7-0005Qx-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1Fw3-0002Dr-UZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:50169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a1Fw3-0002Dg-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYB00C00TAE5M00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:54:18 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYB00BB4TIIYY50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:54:18 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195167 Archived-At: > From: raman > Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:44:57 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > The quoting convention is confusing enough that at this point I just > want it to say "it's value is a symbol" or "it's value is a string". The question is, is something different about that particular doc string as opposed to other doc strings which document symbol values? If there's nothing different, you are supposed to have the same problem with all the other doc strings, and we should either change all of them, or none at all.