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25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>
Subject: bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:12:58 +0200

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> We were playing with curly quotes in docstrings, but that got rejected
>> (as far as I recall).
>
> I think it still matters because Help buffers still use curly quotes,
> and one might need `variable-at-point' to work inside help buffers.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't
resolved at the time.)

`variable-at-point' now works in *Help* recognising ‘’ quoting (it was
fixed a few years back).

As for the other request -- I don't think adding ‘’ in Lisp buffers
would be helpful -- we don't use that syntax in doc strings there, so
I'm closing this bug report.

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