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Re: ASCII-only startup message?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ASCII-only startup message? |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:50:55 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 11:40:55 -0800
>
> > we never agreed to have these curved quotes in *scratch*, not even discussed
> > that, AFAIR.
>
> No, we discussed it on September 24 after I made the change on September 2.
> You
> asked whether the change was intended; I replied that it was. Please see:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2015-09/msg00031.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-09/msg00967.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-09/msg00968.html
OK, so I changed my mind now. These characters shouldn't be there in
Lisp comments. Not in *scratch*.
> Alternatively, I suppose we could rephrase the message to avoid apostrophes
> entirely (this would prevent those *ugly* ASCII apostrophes from *ruining*
> the
> otherwise-*beautiful* startup screen :-). However, I mildly prefer starting
> with
> a couple of non-ASCII characters, as a useful test of Emacs's capabilities on
> startup.
The ugliness argument was about the grave accent, `, not about the
apostrophe. There's nothing ugly about it.
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