From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <55826DCC.9040404@cs.ucla.edu> <55850208.3080605@cs.ucla.edu> <5585C279.3030607@cs.ucla.edu> <55871590.8010406@cs.ucla.edu> <55898885.8010603@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435098086 7957 80.91.229.3 (23 Jun 2015 22:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 00:21:17 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 1Z7WZA-0000nx-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:21:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WZ9-0001lY-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WYy-0001l7-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WYx-0002c7-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:49937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WYu-0002a7-Kc; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7WYu-0004QC-4l; Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <55898885.8010603@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:25:41 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:187452 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Emacs's use of an obsolescent quoting style is merely a constant > minor annoyance, and it's obviously something that we can work > around when we teach Emacs to students -- we can even give them a > little history lesson as we go. If the change causes no problems at all, it could be worth while to fix such a minor problem. But it will cause problems, with searching -- unless we implement a fix for that. People are discussing a different but related search feature; perhaps the search problem for disguised curly quotes will be eliminated. But until it is, we should not use curly quotes in doc strings. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.