Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:46:43 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:31:28 -0700
> 
> On 09/16/2015 11:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > "push", "wheel", etc. aren't technical terms,
> 
> Sure they are.  And they're commonly used that way nowadays, e.g.:
> 
> https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mousewheel
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-10/msg00185.html
> http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg01746.html

Yes, techno-babble is common.  It doesn't yet make it right.

> Omitting unnecessary quotes would help improve on the stuffy and dated 
> feel that the Emacs manuals too often have.

There's nothing stuffy or dated in using quotes where appropriate.