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 b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150831061236.27796.57762@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <55E3F3AD.2010602@yandex.ru> <55E3F6B6.20205@cs.ucla.edu> <55E3F88A.50003@yandex.ru> <55E3F9D7.6040601@cs.ucla.edu> <55E64B4B.3030006@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 1441589340 433 80.91.229.3 (7 Sep 2015 01:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 01:29:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 07 03:28:51 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 1ZYlEk-00073U-Km for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 03:28:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYlEk-00074I-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYlEL-00071Q-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYlEK-0008Cx-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33875) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYlEJ-0008Br-0t; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYlEI-0002tQ-Et; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:28:18 -0400 In-reply-to: <55E64B4B.3030006@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:05:15 -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:189660 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. ]]] > More generally, though, I did not remove every single curved quote from the > tutorial. That is because it's fine if some programmers want to use curved > quotes in docstrings and diagnostics. They can write anything they like in their own programs, but it's not "fine". They are not supposed to do this in the Emacs sources. The Lisp Intro should show recommended practice, not complicate matters with other ways. So please remove the curly quotes from the Lisp Intro (and any other manuals). -- 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.