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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: |
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:56:07 +0300 |
> Cc: 21472@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:15:25 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Why? It's idiomatic English to talk about pushing changes in a
> dVCS.
I'm not going to argue. The results of these changes look worse to
me. Where previously there was good English, we now have
techno-babble and borderline (a.k.a. "idiomatic") English. It's a
shame we needed to make these changes.
Wrong analogy: here "push" is a literal verb, whereas in the sentence
I quoted "push" is a name of an operation, and "changes" is the verb.
> > Many places have a quoted text replaced by @dfn, although there's no
> > terminology here that we describe or index.
>
> Examples? I put in @dfn when I thought the text was defining a term.
Almost all of those are wrong, IMO, as they don't define any
terminology the manual explains or describes.
> Indexing is a separate axis
No, it's not: if you claim something is a term, you need to index it.
We index all terminology introduced in a manual, as a matter of
principle.
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- 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
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 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