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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 12:27:20 -0000

In article <mailman.1407.1429745888.904.bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> you wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> So if we want this to become our default, we need changes in
>> ispell.el, to replace ? with ' before we sent it to the speller.

> Although a change like that might make sense, it appears to go beyond what's 
> needed for doc strings.  I was thinking of something more modest: change Emacs 
> so that if you're editing an Elisp or C string, then when you type `like-this' 
> it's by default changed to ?like-this?.

No.  Please don't do this.  I hate it when proprietary programs pull this
trick.  If you type a self-inserting character, that is what you should get.
Not all uses of ` and ' in strings are for quoting.

Also there are complicated repercussions for searching and matching, and
probably quite a few other things, too.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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