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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Message #25 received at 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> 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: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:21:11 -0400

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[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > Why?  Why are we quoting "unix" and "dos"?  Why not quote "UNIX"
  > and "DOS"?

We write them in quotes in that passage because we are saying they are
the names of certain things.

Compare:

  Humans' pets are mostly of the effusively friendly kind (the "dog")
  or the aloof kind (the "cat").



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