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

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Message #103 received at 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50;
 REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp
 strings
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:03:05 +0300

> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 22:21:11 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> >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.
> 
> Did you read all those URLs?  It doesn't seem so.  You might recognize a 
> prominent contributor to Emacs in some of them.... :-)

I don't have to read them, since none of them are relevant to user
manuals.  Yes, I, too, use the jargon in free speech, but manuals are
different: their language should be cleaner and more thought-out.

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