From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: text-quoting-style Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:42:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83r3mn50rz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440780221 14826 80.91.229.3 (28 Aug 2015 16:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:43:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 18:43:25 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 1ZVMkK-00069t-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48883 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVMkK-0006xI-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:43:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVMk6-0006x0-DG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVMk5-0006vv-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]:33481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVMk1-0006um-Q5; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238839C1AD; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E531E5B8D; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:42:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by lechon.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 96A59B4288; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:42:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83r3mn50rz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:29:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82, MC_TSTLAST 0.00) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 132.204.24.67 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:189277 Archived-At: Eli says: > For users who don't want the Unicode characters, even though their > display can show them. Given the controversy, I think this is > justified. David says: > Display table tricks will not help with copy&paste to external > applications and with files processed by any program rather than Emacs. Paul says: > As I understand it, Alan introduced text-quoting-style because he did not > want curved quotes in any buffer or string, even curved quotes displayed as > grave accent and apostrophe. IIUC, all these are guesses or hypothetical needs. So it looks like there is no really good reason for that config variable. At the very least it should not be a Custom var. And unless someone comes up with a better, first-hand reason, we should get rid of it. Stefan