GNU bug report logs - #20385
Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:40:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: nicolas <at> petton.fr, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:12:19 +0300
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, nicolas <at> petton.fr, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > > Info files in the Emacs distribution already use curved single
> > > > quotes.
> > >
> > > I sure hope not.  That's not the case in the Windows binary builds
> > > I was able to download.  But there is no Windows build for the
> > > latest release.  That will certainly be a step backward, if what
> > > you say is true.
> > 
> > This depends on the version of Texinfo used to generate the Info
> > files.  With the latest version, what Paul says is true.
> 
> Yes, but I thought you were keeping an eye out, Eli ;-), and making
> sure that at least the Windows Emacs builds used an older version.

I have no such power on work done by others.




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