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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #65 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:30:04 -0400

> I don't see the need for such a change. Is the character ` that ugly?

The need is not terribly high, no.
But yes, `...' is ugly.  It used to be pretty back in the XFree86<4.0
days, when they were symmetric, but now they're pretty ugly.

> The way it currently is looks fine to me (and reminds me of the usage of
> backquotes in Markdown).

I've lived with it for 20 years and could live with it another
20 years.  But if someone can provide a good replacement, I'll
accept it.


        Stefan

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