From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:09:19 +0900 Message-ID: <877forwsow.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <55D15899.2070105@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817121513.GA2634@acm.fritz.box> <55D21191.8070202@cs.ucla.edu> <20150817173551.GB2634@acm.fritz.box> <55D29EA6.2020009@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818103921.GA2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D36132.1020900@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818171715.GD2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D3869E.30302@cs.ucla.edu> <20150818204211.GF2262@acm.fritz.box> <55D3A641.7040409@cs.ucla.edu> <87bne4fc7s.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87bne3wzzg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87y4h7epdb.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439975381 29282 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2015 09:09:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 19 11:09:32 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 1ZRzND-0008Hh-01 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32828 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRzNC-0004uc-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRzN8-0004u8-CR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRzN5-00032i-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:48204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRzN4-00031N-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 003151C3A35; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:09:19 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CD0EF11EF83; Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:09:19 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87y4h7epdb.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" ffb5abc8dc4e XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (barebone) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:188940 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > Maybe I skipped the post that described the improvements, but what > I've seem so far is "because it is modern", I think you misread. The point is that modernizing projects are already doing it and the sky didn't fall, not that calling a feature "modern" makes it attractive. > "because beginners think our current style is weird", Indeed, they do. So do a lot of people who are way beyond beginners. > "because other GNU projects use it", Indeed, they do. > "because this will help improve our Unicode support"... I think it will, as I gather Paul does. > Am I missing something? "It improves readability." But that's a matter of taste.