Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.09.2021 08:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
> >    juri@linkov.net,  rudalics@gmx.at,  larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:15:59 -0400
> >
> > This is a typical bikeshed kind of question, so there's not much point
> > getting people to argue over it.  The maintainers should make an
> > executive decision on it (but they do need to come to an agreement
> > among themselves ;-).
>
> We already had this discussion, and there was a conclusion.  We
> decided to use '..' as the quoting style in plain-text documents.
> I've been using it everywhere since then.  The main arguments were:
>
>    . the ` character looks ugly on many modern displays

The "` character look ugly" discussion resulted in changes of how these 
characters are rendered in the manual, the Help buffers, and so on.

And in this manual page:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Documentation-Tips.html

Note how it still recommends either using curved quotes around symbols 
in source code (which you apparently dislike; and so do I), or keep to 
the old convention of `..'.

>    . the Unicode quotes are not universally supported on text-mode terminals
>    . therefore '..' has the least problems
>
> This discussion was a kind-of tangent of the dispute triggered by the
> changes in how we display `foo' quoted symbols in doc strings and
> echo-area messages.

That tangent was about NEWS and ChangeLogs and other plain text files.

> If we want '..' to be highlighted in some contexts, let's change
> font-lock to support that.

You can't just go around breaking things and expect others to pick up 
the pieces.

> And please remember that we are not talking only about comments, nor
> only about ELisp files.  We are talking about all kinds of plain-text
> documentation: comments, Git commit log messages, NEWS, PROBLEMS, text
> files in admin/notes/, etc.

No, we are not.