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bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quot
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:26:38 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:57:19 -0700
>
> Although the manual was correct as it was, it could be written to avoid the
> need
> for the quotes, and this should help avoid confusion like the problem Drew
> reported. I went through the Emacs, Elisp, and Elisp intro manuals looking
> for
> this sort of problem and fixed the ones that I found in commit
> ef7dbdf5873bf0a1f3f0e64e5d019e74d5b15b9e.
After looking through these changes, I must say I don't like too many
of them. Phrases like "foo (or “bar”)" now lost their quotes, which
makes them less correct English-wise, AFAIK. Even worse, we lost
quotes in phrases like "foo (a.k.a. “bar”). This sentence:
On a decentralized version control system, push changes from the
current branch to another location.
where "push" was quoted, is now reads like incorrect English ("push"
is not a noun here). Likewise here:
The external border is normally not shown on fullboth and mazimized
frames.
Previously, "fullboth", which is not a word, was quoted to indicate
that it's not a real word.
Many places have a quoted text replaced by @dfn, although there's no
terminology here that we describe or index.
Etc., etc. -- I think a large portion of these changes goes too far,
and replaces perfectly correct English with less correct one.
I think most of these changes should be reverted.
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, (continued)
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Richard Stallman, 2015/09/14
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 <=
- 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, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/16
- bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/09/16
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15
bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings, Drew Adams, 2015/09/15