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25.0.93; `text-quoting-style' missing from manual and from customize

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "N. Jackson" <nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23372 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.0.93; text-quoting-style missing from manual and from customize
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:26:18 -0700

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When text-quoting-style was introduced, Stefan Monnier (then the 
maintainer) did not see the need the the variable at all, and wrote "At 
the very least it should not be a Custom var." See:


https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-08/msg01020.html


Eventually I vaguely recall that Stefan was persuaded to put up with the 
variable. Still, I think he's right that it's not suitable for a user 
option. I installed the attached patch to try to document this better. 
Since it's intended for experts, the variable is documented in the 
reference manual, not the user manual.

[0001-Say-why-text-quoting-style-is-not-a-user-option.patch (application/x-patch, attachment)]

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