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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:53:11 -0400

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  > > Why are we concerned with Bidi for quotes in doc strings?
  > > Doc strings should be written in English.

  > Wouldn't we want to use the same quotes in tutorials, including
  > TUITORIAL.he?

The tutorials are a totally different issue, in practical terms.  The
options available are different.

Tutorials are much a more flexible field.  There are just a few
tutorial files, all centrally maintained.  They don't have to follow
the conventions of Lisp code; we can make different conventions for
them.

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