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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: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:00:35 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:18:49 -0700
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, gregory@heytings.org, 
>       monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, 
> juri@linkov.net
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> BTW, as a minor extension to what I did above, I guess we could do
> >> something like this if we want Unicode quotes in files like NEWS:
> >
> > We don't want Unicode quotes in NEWS, because NEWS (and other text
> > files we have, but NEWS, PROBLEMS, and DEBUG in particular) needs to
> > be readable on any text-mode terminal.  It's important to let users
> > read those without problems.
> 
> So you would make it conditional on `display-graphic-p' or something to
> that effect.

No, because we want these files to be readable by "other programs".
They are useful for those who don't (yet) have Emacs.



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