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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quot


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.html

Omitting 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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