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 #70 received at 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses
 curly quotes for Lisp strings
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:49:13 -0700

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Shame on us for failing to write good expressive English for fear of
> quotes.

I didn't remove those quotes due to fear.  I removed them because they made the 
manual harder to read.  Quotes are important to get right in English, and part 
of getting it right is to avoid overusing them.

To be fair, the unnecessary quotes in the manual weren't as bad as these:

http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/
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