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: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55EA4821.2050401@yandex.ru> <55EBC5B8.80208@cs.ucla.edu> <55EE1B01.3010201@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 1441679095 4920 80.91.229.3 (8 Sep 2015 02:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 02:24:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 08 04:24:39 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 1ZZ8aL-0000Dg-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Sep 2015 04:24:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ8aK-0006CN-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42929) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ8aH-0006C4-8Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ8aG-0003NQ-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:50968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ8aE-0003Md-Nj; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZZ8aE-0004ph-6W; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 22:24:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <55EE1B01.3010201@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 7 Sep 2015 16:17:21 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:189696 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 eased Emacs maintainence for me, but judging from recent > remarks on the mailing list I'm in the minority in preferring that style so I > just now undid almost all that change in the master branch. Thank you. -- 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.