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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quot
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:00:59 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:57:19 -0700
>
> Although the manual was correct as it was, it could be written to avoid the
> need
> for the quotes, and this should help avoid confusion like the problem Drew
> reported. I went through the Emacs, Elisp, and Elisp intro manuals looking
> for
> this sort of problem and fixed the ones that I found in commit
> ef7dbdf5873bf0a1f3f0e64e5d019e74d5b15b9e. The sentence Drew mentioned now
> looks
> like this:
>
> Emacs handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a
> file:
> newline (Unix), carriage-return linefeed (DOS), and just carriage-return
> (Mac).
>
> which avoids the quoting issue entirely.
If this means that we should avoid quoting text just because Drew
doesn't like a certain type of quotes, then I object.
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Richard Stallman, 2015/09/14
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/15
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16