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Support curved quotes in doc strings

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Message #98 received at 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20385 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc
 strings
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:45:20 -0700

Nicolas Petton wrote:
> I don't understand how this would better than using backquotes
> `like-this`

Quoting `like-this` still looks ugly, and still misuses grave accent in a way 
that's confusing for people not accustomed to the style.  It's also harder to 
parse unambiguously than a matching pair of distinct quote characters.

> - Isn't the curved single quote character *really* hard to type?

Yes, and Stefan raised that point too.  It should be reasonably easy to fix this 
(though I haven't coded it up yet).

> - aren't curved single quotes only used to display code quotation
>    in compiled info files, not in .texinfo sources

Yes, and partly because of this info-look.el now handles curved single quotes. 
These sorts of changes are inevitable (and shouldn't be that hard) when 
accommodating Emacs to common quoting styles.

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