Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Phil Sainty]

On 2021-09-18 00:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I don't see anybody concur with your stance in this particular
> > discussion, and if you search the old one, I think it was mostly Paul
> > (?), and even he was really arguing toward something different, in a
> > different context as well (plain text files).
>
> It doesn't matter.  This is a decision we already made, so just saying
> you don't like it is not good enough.  We need a much stronger reason
> to reverse previous decisions.

I might have missed something, but I think almost everyone else in
this thread has expressed some degree of surprise/confusion that
elisp comments would be categorised as "plain text" and/or the notion
that the previous decision was ever intended to apply to those.

If the only strong reason for making a change here is to adhere to
a decision that nobody (or almost nobody) was *actually* trying to
make (where elisp comments are concerned), then that would seem like
a very strong reason to stop and reassess.

I don't know the answer, but I'm seeing a lot of confusion.

Can we at minimum get confirmation from the people who were arguing
for fancy quotes in those old discussions that they wanted *this*
as well?  Because if those people weren't trying to change elisp
comments, then I don't think the old decision is relevant here, in
which case nothing would be "reversed" by maintaining the traditional
quoting style.


-Phil