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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Jun 2015 06:25:32 -0700 (PDT) |
> But I come back to the point. Why start using these curly
> characters at all? I put it to you you're fixing what
> isn't broken.
>
> One of Emacs's strong points has always been its working
> in pretty much any environment. You're going to slightly
> improve what these things look like in some display
> environments at the cost of slight inconvenience all
> round. What we currently have works, works well, and has
> done for decades.
+1. So that makes two of us. (Whoopee.)
Unfortunately, our dear leader has opted to follow down this
rabbit hole, under the delusory banner of "Modernization".
Perhaps in a decade or two someone will have the brilliant
eureka of introducing an easy-to-type, unambiguous convention
for distinguishing code from ordinary text, including from
quotations. For example, enclosing it in `...'.
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
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- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/04
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/06
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/06