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: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:57:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <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> <558436F3.8040307@cs.ucla.edu> <20150623222216.GC12232@acm.fritz.box> <5589E217.80609@cs.ucla.edu> <20150624172048.GB18124@acm.fritz.box> <558C7FA1.3020501@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 1435327119 27589 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 13:58:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 15:58:30 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 1Z8U99-0001G7-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:58:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U99-0000kf-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8X-0008Ks-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8W-0007zD-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57894) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8R-0007wI-Uh; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8R-0007ZH-9D; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:57:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <558C7FA1.3020501@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:24:33 -0700) 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:187564 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. ]]] > No, ASCII quoting still works properly, even though curved quotes are in source > files now. Using curly quotes in the Lisp source files is a cause of confusion. We should use only ASCII quotes in the sources, and change them in display for users who want that. -- 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.