Subject: RE: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:24:48 -0700 (PDT)

> > This sop is not at all sufficient: "able to do that in their
> > *own* doc strings and manuals".  Might as well say that you will
> > allow folks to do what they like in their own fork of Emacs.
> 
> No, not at all.  Libraries that want to remain easily-editable in
> older versions of Emacs can continue to quote `like this'; their
> users and developers won't need to fork Emacs.

So if someone wants to avoid your change then they have a choice:
fork Emacs or use an older Emacs version.  Wunderbar.