From: raman <raman@google.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:20:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p91y4gg7uix.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55EEE97F.1040008@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 8 Sep 2015 06:58:23 -0700")
The negative with that is that we'll have inconsistency between say Core
Emacs libraries and code from Elpa. Eventually this entire thread will
be forgotten or be entirely unknown to another elisp programmer who
ends up cut/pasting from other elpa code. I think for the long-term
health of emacs, this is a situation that is best avoided.
The needs of developers who view Ascii quotes as ugly and want to see
something else can be easily served by an elpa package that uses all the
tricks you have proposed in reverse on this thread, eg display-table
hacks, shadow glyphs and other alternatives -- it has the advantage of
keeping the codebase clean. In some sense, that is not very different
from having an addon package display #'(lambda as #'(λ
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-08 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-05 1:14 Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! Richard Stallman
2015-09-05 1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-06 4:48 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06 5:05 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-06 7:15 ` Zack Piper
2015-09-06 7:16 ` Zack Piper
2015-09-06 7:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-06 17:40 ` raman
2015-09-06 19:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-07 1:25 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-07 23:17 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-08 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-09-08 13:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 13:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-08 16:20 ` raman [this message]
2015-09-08 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-09-08 22:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-09-08 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-09 15:27 ` raman
2015-09-09 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-09 19:55 ` T.V Raman
2015-09-09 22:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10 3:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 7:55 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 15:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 15:46 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-10 17:25 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-14 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-09-14 15:30 ` T.V Raman
2015-09-08 15:37 ` raman
2015-09-05 3:20 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-06 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
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