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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: text-quoting-style
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 02:18:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u8p3c8x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E638FE.70800@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:47:10 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Bastien wrote:
>> I see new things like the \= in docstrings.  Will it last?
>
> \= in docstrings has been supported since Emacs 16 was released in
> 1985.  As the feature has lasted three decades, even the cautious can
> rely on it now.

You have a propensity of answering questions nobody has asked.  At any
rate:

dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/emacs$ git grep -c  '\\\\=' 'master@{now}' |awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"};{n+=$NF};END{print n}'
755
dak@lola:/usr/local/tmp/emacs$ git grep -c  '\\\\=' 'master@{1 month ago}' |awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"};{n+=$NF};END{print n}'
379

and I don't think anybody claims that every use of ` ' that should be
preserved has been caught already.

And since this affects all code including the code written in Emacs
Lisp, all external packages are affected as well.  For example, AUCTeX:

    TeX-insert-quote is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘tex.el’.

    (TeX-insert-quote FORCE)

    Insert the appropriate quotation marks for TeX.
    Inserts the value of ‘TeX-open-quote’ (normally ‘‘) or ‘TeX-close-quote’
    (normally ’’) depending on the context.  If ‘TeX-quote-after-quote’
    is non-nil, this insertion works only after ".
    With prefix argument FORCE, always inserts " characters.

Needless to say, this DOC string is now wrong.

Who is going to fix all of ELPA?

-- 
David Kastrup



  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-28  2:03 text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28  5:22 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-08-28  7:06 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28  7:37   ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28  7:54     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28  8:42       ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 14:39         ` text-quoting-style Yuri Khan
2015-08-28 14:49           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:00         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:31           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 15:39             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 15:48               ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28  7:29 ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-28 16:42   ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28 17:25     ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-28 17:48       ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-28 18:28         ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-29 14:54       ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-29 15:59         ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-30  1:59           ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-30 13:16             ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31  1:30               ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-08-31  6:29                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-08-31 20:13                   ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 21:29                     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 12:47                       ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 16:27                         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:07                           ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 18:35                           ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 23:58                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  9:09                               ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-02 15:13                                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:44                           ` text-quoting-style Eli Zaretskii
2015-09-01 19:08                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 13:46                       ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 16:28                         ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 17:08                           ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-01 17:34                             ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-01 18:30                               ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02  0:07                                 ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:27                                   ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02 15:35                               ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-08-31 20:01                 ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01  3:31                   ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01  9:28                     ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-01 10:53                       ` text-quoting-style Oleh Krehel
2015-09-01 13:03                     ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-09-01 16:46                       ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-01 20:41                         ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-01 23:47                           ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:18                             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-09-02  0:35                               ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02  0:53                                 ` text-quoting-style David Kastrup
2015-09-02  6:57                             ` text-quoting-style Bastien
2015-09-02 15:17                               ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert
2015-09-02 15:36                                 ` text-quoting-style Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-02 15:41                                 ` text-quoting-style Bastien Guerry
2015-09-01 22:55                     ` text-quoting-style Richard Stallman
2015-09-02  9:05                       ` text-quoting-style Alan Mackenzie
2015-08-31 16:10       ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-08-31 17:31         ` text-quoting-style Stefan Monnier
2015-09-02 19:34           ` text-quoting-style N. Jackson
2015-09-03 15:29             ` text-quoting-style raman
2015-08-31  6:15     ` text-quoting-style Paul Eggert

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