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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: 23 Apr 2015 12:11:09 -0000

In article <mailman.1406.1429745828.904.bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> you wrote:
> Drew Adams wrote:
>> If Emacs at some point decides to switch to another code-quoting
>> mechanism, that's one thing.  But what it definitely should NOT do,
>> IMO, is to lose code quoting

> Yes, that makes sense.  The latest iteration of the proposal does that, by 
> suggesting that doc strings use curved single quotes ?like-this? to quote code. 
>  This mechanism is already used in the Emacs 24.5 info files, and it works well 
> there.

It doesn't work at all well in my terminal (a Linux virtual tty).
Whatever these characters are, they are displayed as inverse question
marks.  I'm not in favour of proliferating these characters over our code
as well.  How do you type them?  How do you search for them?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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