RE: [External] : Tick Reduction

[Phil Sainty]

On 2021-11-19 11:18, Drew Adams wrote:
> FWIW, I'm against it, in particular for the
> same reasons I'm against the use of curly
> quotes, including search & recognition.
>
> At most, it should be optional (and opt-in).
>
> It ain't broke; please don't "fix" it.  And
> real Emacs improvements are still possible...

Having just read this thread and the significant collection of
complications being discussed, I can only agree with Drew --
let's not default to introducing issues for users where none
previously existed.

(Tangentially I also think curly quotes cause more problems
than they do improvements.)

Most users will already have a good monospace font configured
for Emacs, and the things being discussed will not be problems
for them, so I'm in favour of any such changes being opt-in,
rather than risk their existing proportional font configuration
making Emacs look bad all of a sudden.

At minimum these changes should be options.


-Phil