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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:21:00 -0400 |
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> Emacs's use of an obsolescent quoting style is merely a constant
> minor annoyance, and it's obviously something that we can work
> around when we teach Emacs to students -- we can even give them a
> little history lesson as we go.
If the change causes no problems at all, it could be worth while
to fix such a minor problem.
But it will cause problems, with searching -- unless we implement a
fix for that. People are discussing a different but related search
feature; perhaps the search problem for disguised curly quotes will be
eliminated. But until it is, we should not use curly quotes in doc
strings.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/21
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/22
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/22
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Wolfgang Jenkner, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Eggert, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Juri Linkov, 2015/06/22
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/15
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Daniel Colascione, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Tassilo Horn, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Yuri Khan, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Tassilo Horn, 2015/06/17
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Artur Malabarba, 2015/06/17
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Paul Nathan, 2015/06/20