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

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 
 Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:36:33 -0700

Drew Adams wrote:
> If Emacs at some point decides to switch to another code-quoting
> mechanism, that's one thing.  But what it definitely should NOT do,
> IMO, is to lose code quoting

Yes, that makes sense.  The latest iteration of the proposal does that, by 
suggesting that doc strings use curved single quotes ‘like-this’ to quote code. 
 This mechanism is already used in the Emacs 24.5 info files, and it works well 
there.
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