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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentat
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:56:21 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
Hello, Paul.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 01:47:22PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/14/2016 12:29 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> > Could we render the quotes the way that we currently do for Elisp
> > documentation?
> Yes, that could be done. We'd need an escape mechanism for the rare
> cases where quotes should not be replaced, as in the following lines:
Please don't do that. NEWS is a text file, not a markup file. It
should remain readable with "anything".
[ .... ]
> The above would all run afoul of Eli's desire to use other programs to
> read etc/NEWS as-is, though.
Mine, too.
> I'm afraid that straight quoting 'like this' is the simplest way out of
> this mess. It is not a great solution, but it is the simplest and the
> other approaches all have problems that may be worse. This is why the
> patch I originally installed today used straight quoting. How about if
> we simply go back to it? I.e., revert commit
> 4235d2d9eaa3b64d3172f6c60f1e71704795af89 and then move on.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/03/15
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/15
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/15
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/16
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/16
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/16
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/16
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/16
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Paul Eggert, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Kaushal Modi, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/14
- RE: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Drew Adams, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, John Wiegley, 2016/03/14
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/14
Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/14