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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:27:14 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 |
On 09/16/2015 10:18 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
"Push" here is jargon
It would be ridiculous to quote every use of a technical term in the manual. It's fine to quote the defining occurrence (prefably with @dfn), but other uses of technical terms should appear unquoted. This is standard English style and it's what Emacs manuals should use. The defenses you gave for the quotes in the examples are weak; those quotes are unnecessary distractions to the reader, and their costs outweigh their benefits.
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