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| From: | Dmitry Gutov |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
| Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 2015 04:09:22 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/40.0 |
On 08/19/2015 12:43 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
We're talking only about the prose that appears in commentary and strings of Emacs Lisp source files, and this makes Chad Brown's remarks about prose relevant to the discussion.
Not at all. I'm pretty sure the "numerous complaints from editors" Chad mentioned were not about contents of docstrings in Elisp Chad wrote.
Whatever choice is made WRT to docstring syntax, it should have to bearing on people's ability to write prose (books, articles, blog posts) and typography used therein.
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