From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: '.' at the beginning of summary buffer lines
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:39:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3elpy7b6t.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ylwv3qtu4p.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> fw> (Please don't use '`' as a quote sign. Thanks.)
>
>> Why is that? It's often used in info docs....
>
> See <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html>.
When Emacs stops using "`" in its documentation, you can start bugging
people not to use that character when talking about the documentation.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-26 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-26 17:33 Florian Weimer
2001-08-26 17:36 ` Henrik Enberg
2001-08-26 17:47 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-08-26 18:57 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-26 18:54 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-08-26 20:08 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-26 20:59 ` Russ Allbery
2001-08-26 21:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-08-29 15:31 ` Harry Putnam
2001-08-29 17:00 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-08-29 18:30 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-29 16:46 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2001-08-29 18:59 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-08-30 11:40 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2001-08-30 13:55 ` Josh Huber
2001-08-31 14:08 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2001-09-01 0:37 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-31 14:11 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2001-08-31 23:29 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-08-26 21:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2001-08-26 21:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-26 23:09 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-08-26 18:58 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-26 19:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-27 13:47 ` Emerick Rogul
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