X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43AA1A73.C28CAA8E@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:16:03 -0800 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin mailing-list Subject: Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot References: <20051130171137 DOT GE2999 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20051221054648 DOT GA30866 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <43A9B2E4 DOT 5080908 AT gmx DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Buzz wrote: > Those <`> are called back-ticks... (and there is nothing arbitrary > about my use of them, IMHO.) > > I did accidently start my quotes with <''>, not <``>. Sorry about that. On that topic I happen to agree with Markus Kuhn that ascii 0x60 should not be used in place of quotation marks: . I believe that his argument was convincing enough to get a number of the GNU projects to stop doing this -- at least in gcc 4.x AFAIK. To me `this' looks much worse than 'this'. I will celebrate the day that the last manpage that does `this' is destroyed. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/