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Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:39:45 +0300

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
>  juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:50:32 +0300
> 
> > - We declare something else as the official style.  I personally have
> >    grown fond of (a subset of) Markdown, so I'd vote for `...` (and
> >    encourage extending this to a few more conventions, e.g. so we can
> >    distinguish code from prose in comments), but (a subset of) Org style
> >    would also make a lot of sense.
> 
> `...` is fine with me, or anything else that looks like markup ('...' 
> will result in more annoying false positives). But it will result in a 
> lot more work across the board.

Quoting `like this` flies in the face of the main reason why we moved
from `..'.  If `..` is okay, we might as well go back to the original
`..'.  I do wonder, though, where were these arguments back when
someone, I think Paul Eggert, said that ` looks ugly on modern
terminals, which triggered a lot of changes, in addition to this one.
Was all that in vain?



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