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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Message #268 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PATCH] Support curved quotes in doc strings
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 03:11:42 +0300

On 05/16/2015 02:52 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Although Emacs old-timers
> are used to quoting `like this', to newbies it's a weird and offputting
> relic from ancient history.

And as long as we're discussing newbies, how about switching to 
Markdown-style quoting, then? Two backticks for inline code reference, a 
pair of triple backticks for a code block.

That's definitely going to be familiar.
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