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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:21:08 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> manuals ...  language should be cleaner and more thought-out.

Right, but littering a manual with unnecessary quotation marks is not cleaner: 
on the contrary, it is messy and distracting.  Clear and simple explanation 
should trump pedanticism.  The bug report that started this thread stemmed from 
confusion induced by unnecessary quotes, and many of the quotes you recently 
reintroduced are just as unnecessary and could easily cause similar confusion.
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