Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created

[Paul Eggert]

John Wiegley wrote:
> I've been scanning the messages in this thread, but I must admit I'm not
> seeing the forest for the trees. Can someone summarize the points to be
> decided here?

The main issue is whether text-quoting-style should be customizable, as opposed 
to being a simple Lisp variable as it is now. Eli said "no", you said "yes", and 
as I recall this issue was unresolved the last time it was mentioned on this 
list. (I don't care, myself.)

The latest email flurry is minor by comparison. The main issues there are about 
the Elisp manual, and are:

1. Whether the manual should recommend routinely let-binding text-quoting-style, 
a style that Alan favors. I think it should recommend the (message "%s" ...)
style that the Emacs source code itself uses, as this style is more flexible and 
reliable. (I can give examples of why, if you care.)

2. Alan wants the description of every affected function to have a big paragraph 
about text quoting, whereas I prefer to replace those big paragraphs with short 
blurbs that reference a single (new) section that covers the issue in more 
detail than the big paragraphs would.