From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:55:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87bndag13h.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> <55EE1B01.3010201@cs.ucla.edu> <55EEDBE7.8050903@yandex.ru> <55EEE97F.1040008@cs.ucla.edu> <55EF5FE3.4020209@yandex.ru> <55EF763E.5060500@cs.ucla.edu> <22000.36504.734886.651251@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> 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 1441872154 11520 80.91.229.3 (10 Sep 2015 08:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, dgutov@yandex.ru, rms@gnu.org, "T.V Raman" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 10 10:02:33 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 1ZZwoS-0004t2-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47608 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZwoS-0005y3-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:02:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZwoH-0005xr-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:02:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZwoG-0000gZ-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:02:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZwoA-0000dq-Br; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51165 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZwo3-0001Xc-4u; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 65199DF509; Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:55:30 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:28:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:189793 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The only thing I'm asking for is that curly quotes in files where >> they exist be removed so the codebase goes back to a pristine state. > > I think this is already done, git grep =E2=80=98 disagrees. While the bulk of occurences may be either programmatic or descriptive, there is a fair share of format strings, manual contents (not sure whether that transfers well to all Texinfo backends, particularly PDF), change log entries, comments, dunnet (?!) and others. I have not looked further into this and it's quite likely that a number of those have been done at various points of time rather than being part of the recent large systematic changes. At any rate, for people feeling strongly about the issue, there is still opportunity for improving the consistency of the code base. --=20 David Kastrup