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Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:41:05 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:43:56 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>
>
> A few days ago, somebody on the help list complained that his quotes
> were being messed up in help messages. Eli answered him by explaining
> about curly quotes, and what Emacs does with ASCII quotes. That much is
> not in the manual.
That problem was due to a faulty font used by the OP, so it had
absolutely nothing to do with curly quotes per se. The same problem
would have happened with any other non-ASCII character, the quotes
just served as a "canary".
> My main concern at the moment is my belief that you have been and are
> attempting to maximise the difficulty faced by Emacs users in disabling
> curly quotes.
I don't think many users will want to do that. Until now, the only
voices I heard are from this list, and people here will not have any
difficulty in using a not-so-documented non-defcustom.
One of important principles in Emacs development should be that we
don't revert our decisions too lightly, unless a decision proves to be
a disaster. And we are not there yet, not by far.
- Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], (continued)
- RE: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], Drew Adams, 2017/09/20
- Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/20
- Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], John Wiegley, 2017/09/20
- Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/20
- Re: About curly quotes (again) [Was: Emacs 26.1 release branch created], Filipp Gunbin, 2017/09/21
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Paul Eggert, 2017/09/19
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Richard Stallman, 2017/09/20
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/20
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Richard Stallman, 2017/09/20
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Paul Eggert, 2017/09/21
- RE: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Drew Adams, 2017/09/20
- Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/20
Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, Paul Eggert, 2017/09/19
Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created, John Wiegley, 2017/09/20