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: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:46:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150615142237.GA3517@acm.fritz.box> <87y4jkhqh5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <557F3C22.4060909@cs.ucla.edu> <5580D356.4050708@cs.ucla.edu> <87si9qonxb.fsf@gnu.org> <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <558D6A3D.1070706@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435416464 18299 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2015 14:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 27 16:47:29 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 1Z8rOD-0003TK-CS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35855 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rOC-0002iF-KL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rNz-0002iA-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rNy-0008AC-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:43929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8rNs-00087s-TK; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:47:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t5REkvtQ032479; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:46:58 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A7574AE15F; Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:46:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:22:14 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5350=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5350> : inlines <3293> : streams <1462366> : uri <1970651> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:187592 Archived-At: >> I don't have a strong opinion on the markup used in the source code, as >> long as we resolve the currently existing ambiguity > Which "currently existing ambiguity" is this? We can't currently reliably render the `...' markup as curly quotes (e.g. via font-lock), because the `...' is ambiguous: we may find `...' in places where the ` and the ' are not related, or where the real closing quote is actually further (because the quoted text includes a quote). Stefan