From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 26299@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:40:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f373004.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70f7b182-ca55-499c-8afe-6bd4aef370a1@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:44:23 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> As one user, I find the adoption of `…' instead of `...' to be a
> retrogression, not an improvement. It is far less readable. Just one
> opinion.
>
> Compare, as one example among zillions:
>
> -- Macro: with-help-window buffer-name body…
>
> with
>
> -- Macro: with-help-window buffer-name body...
>
> I cannot imagine what someone thought, when making this change. Did it
> come just because we _can_ now use that Unicode character? That's not
> a reason that we _should_ use it in such contexts.
This seems to be another feature of the new (i.e., 5+) texinfo (like the
curly quotes). I'm still using 4.13 so I see "..." here. You can make
Emacs display "…" as "..." with
(aset (or standard-display-table
(setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))
?… (vconcat "..."))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-30 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-29 14:44 bug#26299: 24.5; Use of `…' in Info Drew Adams
2017-03-30 3:40 ` npostavs [this message]
2017-03-30 13:49 ` Drew Adams
2017-03-30 14:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-30 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 2:49 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 14:52 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-12 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-12 17:13 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-29 3:21 ` Stefan Kangas
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