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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:08 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
manuals ... language should be cleaner and more thought-out.
Right, but littering a manual with unnecessary quotation marks is not cleaner: on the contrary, it is messy and distracting. Clear and simple explanation should trump pedanticism. The bug report that started this thread stemmed from confusion induced by unnecessary quotes, and many of the quotes you recently reintroduced are just as unnecessary and could easily cause similar confusion.
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