GNU bug report logs - #21472
25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 21472-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:57:19 -0700

Although the manual was correct as it was, it could be written to avoid the need 
for the quotes, and this should help avoid confusion like the problem Drew 
reported.  I went through the Emacs, Elisp, and Elisp intro manuals looking for 
this sort of problem and fixed the ones that I found in commit 
ef7dbdf5873bf0a1f3f0e64e5d019e74d5b15b9e.  The sentence Drew mentioned now looks 
like this:

Emacs handles three different conventions for how to separate lines in a file: 
newline (Unix), carriage-return linefeed (DOS), and just carriage-return (Mac).

which avoids the quoting issue entirely.
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