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: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55EA4821.2050401@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 1441508388 24816 80.91.229.3 (6 Sep 2015 02:59:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 02:59:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 04:59:39 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 1ZYQB7-0002m3-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:59:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQB7-0005bP-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAr-0005bH-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAq-0005W2-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAm-0005Su-J6; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYQAl-0008RI-VQ; Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:59:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sat, 5 Sep 2015 04:40:49 +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:189638 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. ]]] > > Please stop inserting curly quotes into doc strings in Emacs sources. > I would also ask to remove the ones already inserted. Those that represent symbol quotations in doc strings should be removed. For the rest, I don't know why they are used. Perhaps there is a good reason for some specific ones. -- 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.