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25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#21472: 25.0.50; REGRESSION: (emacs) `Coding Systems' uses curly quotes for Lisp strings
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:31:28 -0700

On 09/16/2015 11:34 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> "push", "wheel", etc. aren't technical terms,

Sure they are.  And they're commonly used that way nowadays, e.g.:

https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mousewheel
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-10/msg00185.html
http://git-scm.com/docs/git-push
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg01746.html

Omitting unnecessary quotes would help improve on the stuffy and dated 
feel that the Emacs manuals too often have.  A part of this stuffiness 
comes from quoting terms that may have been newfangled decades ago but 
are in common use now.  Repeatedly quoting now-common terms like "push", 
"mouse wheel", "cut", "copy", and "minimize" makes the manuals look like 
they were written decades ago and haven't been properly updated since.  
(Look, Ma!  I can "cut" from this window and "paste" into this other one 
with my "mouse wheel"! :-)

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