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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quot
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
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Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:08:50 -0400 |
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> Emacs Info manuals have long used double-quotes for two things:
> * Setting off terms that are defined (e.g., glossary terms).
> (This is presumably the case for the occurrence of "codepages"
> in this same node.)
Those are English quotation marks.
> * Programming strings - e.g. Lisp strings (including file-name strings).
We write Lisp strings in Lisp syntax, which includes ASCII doublequote
characters.
> Emacs
> handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file:
> newline ("unix"), carriage-return linefeed ("dos"), and just
> carriage-return ("mac").
> Why curly double-quotes here? Either those quoted names are supposed
> to be Lisp strings or they are proper names.
I don't think they are Lisp strings. Those are informal aliases, not
proper names, hence call for English quotation marks.
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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings,
Richard Stallman <=
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/15
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/15