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: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <87r3p9fxm2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2v0fiji.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150619090225.GA2743@acm.fritz.box> <87fv5kfrfa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83twtzhi9g.fsf@gnu.org> <877fqvfvby.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fv5jh8ls.fsf@gnu.org> <874mlzf71d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> <5589E2DB.1060207@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435157748 24274 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2015 14:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 24 16:55:38 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 1Z7m5R-0006yZ-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:55:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7m5R-0005r2-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7m5L-0005n1-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7m5K-00073m-Ng for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:39637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7m5D-0006km-TV; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z7m5C-00059U-RO; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:55:22 -0400 In-reply-to: <5589E2DB.1060207@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Wed, 24 Jun 2015 01:51:07 +0300) 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:187473 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. ]]] > See the docstrings in macroexp-progn, macroexp-let* and macroexp-let2, > for instance. They seem to be ok the way they are. No change is needed, because there is no problem. Since they contain an unmatched backquote, a program to parse quotes in doc strings might get confused by them. But that problem is easy to avoid: make the parser ignore backquotes that have no closing singlequote. -- 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.