Re: [PATCH] standards: rewrite section on quoting

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/23/11 15:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'll send a gnulib patch along these lines to bug-gnulib.

For convenience I broke this patch (which uses 'single
quoting' when quoting code) into three parts.

Part 1, like Paolo's patch, affects just the program output.
It's a bit more inclusive about what constitutes "program output",
e.g., it includes M4 macros that output .h files.  It continues
to affect test cases; they're easily separable (they're near
the end of the patch).

Part 2 is everything else that I proposed earlier, namely,
patches to comments.

I'll append a Part 3, which is new and which
affects documentation (the files under doc/).

As before, the assumption is that the changes affecting files
imported from upstream will be sent upstream; we shouldn't stop
importing merely because of quoting issues or minor commentary
changes, even if the changes are rejected upstream.
I'm also assuming Paolo's patch to quotearg
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-12/msg00164.html>
and something like the proposed patch to standards.texi
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-12/msg00217.html>.

The total patch is only 274 kB (smaller than my 500 kB estimate :-).
I'll send it only to bug-gnulib, so that it doesn't bog
autoconf-patches and bug-standards down over gnulib-specific changes.