From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable electric quotes in the Emacs codebase. Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:34:00 +0200 Message-ID: <83o98x3593.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20190102212128.74437-1-phst@google.com> <83va353l8z.fsf@gnu.org> <319850cc-c0bb-513e-0b6e-2fd26f499d23@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546543977 17531 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2019 19:32:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:32:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phst@google.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 20:32:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8jc-0004Qz-FW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 20:32:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8lj-0002LF-3F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8kr-0002Iw-7X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:34:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8kq-0004AQ-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:34:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8km-00047V-Gd; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1269 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gf8km-00059c-3l; Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:34:04 -0500 In-reply-to: <319850cc-c0bb-513e-0b6e-2fd26f499d23@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232145 Archived-At: > Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phst@google.com > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:22 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Paul, can you tell in which files you find electric quote mode > > helpful? > > Random text files other than .el, .c, .texi. This includes ChangeLog files, > notes, and so forth. Even in .el and .c files I often prefer electric quote mode > for comments, and for strings in the occasional files that deal with quotes > themeselves. It's problematic to use these in C files, since we don't necessarily visit them with UTF-8. No such problems in .el files, where we should only avoid doing that in strings, to avoid breaking related features.