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Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings! |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:25:59 -0700 |
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On 09/10/2015 08:46 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> outcommented stuff that would become non-standard when commented back
Thanks, I missed those, since I didn’t look at comments. Fixed.
> Comments and messages like
Thanks, I missed those message instances, as somebody else introduced
those curved quotes and I looked only at the curved quotes I
introduced. I changed them to use grave quotes just now.
It’s OK to use curved quotes in English text in comments.
> Well, various text files
It’s OK for English text in text files to use curved quotes. In
etc/PROBLEMS, the text is showing an Emacs diagnostic as presented to
the user. This normally uses curved quotes nowadays, so curved quotes
are preferable there. The other curved quotes you mention also look OK.
> various messages like
Those messages generate info files, which typically use curved quotes
nowadays, so curved quotes are appropriate there.
> The English adventure "dunnet"
Please feel free to go through dunnet and change it to use
substitute-command-keys or format-message so that it generates grave
quotes for dunnet users who prefer that style. I did not think it worth
bothering about, myself.
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, (continued)
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/09/08
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/08
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, raman, 2015/09/09
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/09
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, T.V Raman, 2015/09/09
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/09
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/09
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, David Kastrup, 2015/09/10
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Stefan Monnier, 2015/09/10
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, David Kastrup, 2015/09/10
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, David Kastrup, 2015/09/14
- Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, T.V Raman, 2015/09/14
Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!, Paul Eggert, 2015/09/04