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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #17 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:53:32 -0700 (PDT)

> For better looks we can use curved single quotes, e.g., instead of the
> current:
>    Indent each line via `indent-according-to-mode'.
> we can use:
>    Indent each line via ‘indent-according-to-mode’.
> 
> Curved single quotes nest better than apostrophe pairs, look better than
> grave accent + apostrophe, and avoid the "misuse" of grave accent for
> quoting.  A revised patch is attached.

Again, please don't.  It is much simpler to search for ` and ', which
are available directly from most keyboards, than it is to search for
‘ and ’.

Please find something else you are interested in, to improve. ;-)
There are plenty of thing to work on, to improve Emacs.  Tons of
bugs reported, to start with...

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