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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
Date: | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:31:28 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 |
On 09/16/2015 11:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
"push", "wheel", etc. aren't technical terms,
Sure they are. And they're commonly used that way nowadays, e.g.: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mousewheel https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-10/msg00185.html http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg01746.htmlOmitting unnecessary quotes would help improve on the stuffy and dated feel that the Emacs manuals too often have. A part of this stuffiness comes from quoting terms that may have been newfangled decades ago but are in common use now. Repeatedly quoting now-common terms like "push", "mouse wheel", "cut", "copy", and "minimize" makes the manuals look like they were written decades ago and haven't been properly updated since. (Look, Ma! I can "cut" from this window and "paste" into this other one with my "mouse wheel"! :-)
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