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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagno
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics |
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Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:11:51 -0400 |
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> > For overall ease of maintenance, I think we should discourage use of
> > curly quotes and other non-ASCII characters in comments within Emacs
> > sources and Emacs packages, because they are a _gratuitous_ impediment
> > to some developers' editing the sources. That is, they cause trouble
> > for some, while providing no _practical_ benefit to anyone.
> I would rephrase that instead to simply disallow non-ASCII characters in
> the *syntax* of Emacs comments (C and Lisp).
That is not a rephrasing. It's a totally different position.
I'm talking about the contents of comments, not their syntax.
The syntax of Lisp and C comments is well defined
and it does not involve non-ASCII characters.
I'm sayin comments shouldn't contain any non-ASCII characters except
under special circumstances. I gave two examples of special
circumstances that would justify non-ASCII characters.
> If someone wants to write a
> comment in their native, non-English language, that is, of course, fine.
Not in the Emacs sources. Comments in GNU packages should always be
in English. See the GNU Coding Standards, node Comments.
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- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/17
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Bastien, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Paul Eggert, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Andreas Schwab, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Chad Brown, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/08/18
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Drew Adams, 2015/08/18
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/24
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/08/25
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/08/25
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, David Kastrup, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2015/08/26
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2015/08/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Werner LEMBERG, 2015/08/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/27