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[76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 82sm34005651pfi.78.2016.03.14.12.39.57 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:39:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id E6D55137D6346; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:39:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:16:25 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Drew Adams , Paul Eggert , Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236 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:201754 Archived-At: >>>>> Drew Adams writes: >> The main point is that grave quoting `like this' is not right >> in user-facing documentation. > Yes, that's your main point. Not much of a main point, IMHO. I would rather we dispensed with all this curly-quoting business, and go back to using `quotes'. They worked well for so long, and visually there isn't enough of a difference to justify all this headache. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2