Re: Should we use `symbol' or 'symbol' in Emacs change logs?

[Bastien]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Am I reading it wrong or am I correct that there is no change
>> in Emacs policy regarding the quotation of symbols in change logs
>> (and in docstrings)?
>
> Indeed there's been no change in that policy.  To the extent that we
> follow the GNU coding standard for the ChangeLogs, you could argue that
> we should use 'foo' in ChangeLogs, but the `...' convention is so
> pervasive inside Emacs that we'd then either have a mix of conventions
> (one for the ChangeLog and another for most everything else) or a major
> painful conversion ahead.

Okay, thanks for confirming!

-- 
 Bastien