RE: [External] : Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Drew Adams]

> The main arguments were:
> 
>   . the ` character looks ugly on many modern displays
>   . the Unicode quotes are not universally supported
>     on text-mode terminals

As for the first argument: Ugliness is in the eye
of the beholder.  And that can depend on what one's
used to.

Yes, many people might not be used to `...'.
That's perhaps always been true, but even if not,
it's no doubt true now.

Many people new to Emacs are not used to lots of
things Emacs does.  Emacs is an eye-opener to many.
Likewise, Lisp.

It's not hard to get used to `...', IMO, and when
you do, you can see its simple beauty and utility,
including ease of recognition, search, fontifying,
and typing (versus typing curly quotes).

Not to mention identical appearance and behavior in
text-mode terminals and elsewhere.  No need for the
former to be an exception.  (There was no need to
switch to curly quotes for the latter, non-text-mode
case, just because some thought curly is less ugly.)

You'll no doubt say that that ship has sailed.  It
sailed with a not insignificant degree of opposition,
but it sailed.