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: text-quoting-style Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83r3mn50rz.fsf@gnu.org> <20150828172501.GB4882@acm.fritz.box> <20150829155959.GA20484@acm.fritz.box> <20150830131613.GA2724@acm.fritz.box> <55E3F447.4050005@cs.ucla.edu> <20150831201343.GB2280@acm.fritz.box> <55E4C724.3060108@cs.ucla.edu> <87k2sa45h2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E5D23B.9080909@cs.ucla.edu> <87lhcq2hk8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <55E5E1AA.8000805@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 1441208166 24314 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 15:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 17:35:56 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 1ZXA4o-0001Uo-Vs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:35:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA4o-0005my-W1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA4H-0005kn-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA4G-0006DE-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA4E-0006CQ-Qq; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZXA42-0002JV-8D; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:35:06 -0400 In-reply-to: <55E5E1AA.8000805@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 1 Sep 2015 10:34:34 -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:189465 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. ]]] > > The curved quotes are not about making Emacs more useful. They are > > about reading aesthetics, but their effects are not restricted to the > > read form. > Exactly as with HT and SP. All displays and all keyboards support HT and SP, because those chars have existed since the 1960s. If the situation with curly quotes were indeed "exactly" the same, no one would have any difficulty with 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.