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 10:11:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83ee9p9eql.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> <59cd29dd-c8c3-2ab2-5886-050c0f12312a@gmx.at> <83sfy5accu.fsf@gnu.org> <40894b65-8880-1d7d-b709-a77fe67ad380@gmx.at> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19273"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 09:12:40 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 1mQlZX-0004q7-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:12:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58254 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQlZV-0000wj-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:12:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQlYZ-0000Es-B1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mQlYT-0002bh-AH; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:11:33 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2504 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 1mQlYS-0003vn-Tr; Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:11:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <40894b65-8880-1d7d-b709-a77fe67ad380@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:56:42 +0200) 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:274793 Archived-At: > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, juri@linkov.net > From: martin rudalics > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:56:42 +0200 > > > Comments, NEWS, PROBLEMS, DEBUG, commit log messages (thus the > > generated ChangeLog files), and any other form of plain-text > > documentation. > > and while I do not have the slightest problem with most of these I do > not understand what should happen to code I comment out. If code I > intend to comment out contains a `...' should I automatically convert it > to '...' or should I leave it alone? My opinion is that if it's code that one day will be uncommented, it's okay to leave the `...' alone. But if we are sure this will likely always be a comment, then yes, a conversion would be best. > In the past I've been always trying hard to avoid the "anarchy" you > mention above and I still would like to get it right in the things I > write. If people will follow the rules, it is indeed worth our while to discuss them and make them detailed enough.