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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: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 10:35:49 +0300 |
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, 21472@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:08 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > manuals ... language should be cleaner and more thought-out.
>
> Right, but littering a manual with unnecessary quotation marks is not
> cleaner:
> on the contrary, it is messy and distracting. Clear and simple explanation
> should trump pedanticism.
We agree on the principles, but disagree about (some of) the concrete
uses of the quotes. So reiterating the principles is not useful.
> The bug report that started this thread stemmed from confusion
> induced by unnecessary quotes, and many of the quotes you recently
> reintroduced are just as unnecessary and could easily cause similar
> confusion.
As I said, we disagree. I thought many of the quotes you removed
should not have been removed. That includes some of the removals I
left alone, because they are really borderline IMO.
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, (continued)
- 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
- 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
- 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, 2015/09/17
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/17
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/17
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/17
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/16