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: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150816160149.9416.80132@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55D1043C.3030909@yandex.ru> <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439874426 19080 80.91.229.3 (18 Aug 2015 05:07:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:07:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 07:06:49 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 1ZRZ6m-00080K-NR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:06:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44612 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXld-00013j-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXlU-0000yT-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXlS-0005Lb-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXlH-0005H4-2I; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRXlG-0002O9-Ar; Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:40:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <20150816225346.GA5367@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 16 Aug 2015 22:53:46 +0000) 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:188859 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. ]]] Now that ordinary quotes in doc strings can appear as curly quotes on terminals which support them, what benefit is there in putting any real curly quotes into those 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.