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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:14:33 +0200

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Paul Eggert writes:

> Nicolas Petton wrote:
>> I don't understand how this would better than using backquotes
>> `like-this`
>
> Quoting `like-this` still looks ugly

I guess that's just a matter of taste then.  I think it's perfectly
fine, and FWIW it's also a very common way to quote code nowadays.

>> - Isn't the curved single quote character *really* hard to type?
>
> Yes, and Stefan raised that point too.  It should be reasonably easy to fix this 
> (though I haven't coded it up yet).

How? By inserting curved quotes when the user types a single quote (or
another character) in a string in Elisp code?  Wouldn't that be a big
issue in other modes (or even outside of Emacs)?

Nico
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Nicolas Petton
http://nicolas-petton.fr

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