GNU bug report logs - #20707
[PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors

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Message #38 received at 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 20707 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated
 errors
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 06:25:32 -0700 (PDT)

> But I come back to the point.  Why start using these curly
> characters at all?  I put it to you you're fixing what
> isn't broken.
>
> One of Emacs's strong points has always been its working
> in pretty much any environment.  You're going to slightly
> improve what these things look like in some display
> environments at the cost of slight inconvenience all
> round. What we currently have works, works well, and has
> done for decades.

+1.  So that makes two of us.  (Whoopee.)

Unfortunately, our dear leader has opted to follow down this
rabbit hole, under the delusory banner of "Modernization".

Perhaps in a decade or two someone will have the brilliant
eureka of introducing an easy-to-type, unambiguous convention
for distinguishing code from ordinary text, including from
quotations.  For example, enclosing it in `...'.

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