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File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or (n)o or (l)iterally

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Message #90 received at 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, juri <at> linkov.net, jidanni <at> jidanni.org,
 mardani29 <at> yahoo.es
Subject: Re: bug#45412: File ... is large (... MiB), really open? (y)es or
 (n)o or (l)iterally
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 13:04:21 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: mardani29 <at> yahoo.es,  45412 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jidanni <at> jidanni.org,
>   juri <at> linkov.net
> Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 11:57:53 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > We decided to quote 'like this' in NEWS and ChangeLog files, AFAIR.
> > Since ChangeLog files are nowadays produced from the Git log, I
> > thought this was in effect there as well.
> 
> It makes sense to insist on a convention in the NEWS file, but in the
> commit messages (and therefore ChangeLog files), that requires more
> effort than it's worth.  (And very few people seem to be following the
> same conventions currently.)
> 
> There's too many hurdles to contribute to Emacs already -- let's not add
> more.

I think having 2 different conventions is worse than having just one,
but I won't argue further.

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