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bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:23:03 -0700 (PDT) |
> Finally, from this thread it's clear that some folks like quoting
> `like this' and I suppose there's no harm in continuing to support it,
> so in my next iteration of this patch I plan to remove commentary to the
> effect that this usage is obsolescent and may not be supported in
> the future. So, people who prefer quoting `like this' (e.g., because
> it's easier with their non-Emacs text editors), will still be free to do
> that.
1. What exactly do you mean by "people who prefer...will still be free
to do that"? Is this choice only at the end-user level? Can a
library make such a choice (to be possibly overridden by a user choice)?
2. Does your proposed change affect only Info? I think that, at the
very least by default, users should have the same experience wrt such
code quoting for Info, doc strings, and Emacs-Lisp (doc strings and
comments). They should not (at least not by default) see `foobar'
in a doc string and Emacs-Lisp mode, and ‘foobar’ in Info.
IOW, a user should be able to make her choice clear wrt such quoting:
* everywhere, at once (i.e. Info, doc strings, Emacs-Lisp mode)
* each individual place, separately
3. To repeat myself: I really feel like you are jumping the gun on this
kind of thing. We should not offer anything like this, even as a
choice, unless and until Emacs can deal with it properly (a) in all
respects: input, search, font-lock,... and (b) everywhere.
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, (continued)
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/22
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Drew Adams, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/04/24
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Nicolas Petton, 2015/04/23
- bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/04/23