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: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:14 -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> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@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 1435485176 28696 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2015 09:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 09:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 28 11:52:47 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 1Z99GZ-00073T-GG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z99GY-0006Qu-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33015) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z99GL-0006Nm-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z99GK-0000N0-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z99G3-0000I7-8j; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z99G2-00055j-Cv; Sun, 28 Jun 2015 05:52:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:46:57 -0400) 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:187608 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. ]]] > We can't currently reliably render the `...' markup as curly quotes > (e.g. via font-lock), because the `...' is ambiguous: I think we can, if we decide not to use them in doc strings around lists. That way, `( will always be a backquote. ` will never occur before a symbol character except when it is part of `...'. -- 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.