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, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:11 -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> <877fqnzpno.fsf@gnu.org> <5590493C.8000007@yandex.ru> <87381bzife.fsf@gnu.org> <75f2fe0f-f15e-4af8-b9ae-0ddc9231c9ab@default> <83a8vi60ke.fsf@gnu.org> <83vbe64jyt.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnfx5340.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435683247 29619 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 16:54:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, tsdh@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, drew.adams@oracle.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 30 18:53:51 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 1Z9yn3-0002F0-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9yn3-00014f-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ymh-0000wK-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ymg-0007k6-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ymY-0007Z8-Lc; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ymV-00044x-W4; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:12 -0400 In-reply-to: <83bnfx5340.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 30 Jun 2015 05:42:07 +0300) 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:187684 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. ]]] > > Why are we concerned with Bidi for quotes in doc strings? > > Doc strings should be written in English. > Wouldn't we want to use the same quotes in tutorials, including > TUITORIAL.he? The tutorials are a totally different issue, in practical terms. The options available are different. Tutorials are much a more flexible field. There are just a few tutorial files, all centrally maintained. They don't have to follow the conventions of Lisp code; we can make different conventions for them. -- 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.