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25.0.94; Wrong quoting in several doc strings

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.94; Wrong quoting in several doc strings
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:19:25 +0200

I found cases of quoting in several doc strings that appear in the
*Help* buffer as curved quotes, I believe wrongly.  I would like to ask
for confirmation that the fixes below are correct and, if so, approval
to push them to emacs-25.  Note that the patch for vhdl-mode also
removes a quote that is at least superfluous, if not incorrect.

In GNU Emacs 25.0.94.8 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.15)
 of 2016-06-05 built on rosalinde
Repository revision: a5d05f447008c4a99d1b00f0af642b4a5ce4cbce
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11601000
System Description:	openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)

diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index c5cfa8e..1f97fa5 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -6147,7 +6147,7 @@ shell-quote-wildcard-pattern
 
 PATTERN is assumed to represent a file-name wildcard suitable for the
 underlying filesystem.  For Unix and GNU/Linux, each character from the
-set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()`'\"#$] is quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
+set [ \\t\\n;<>&|()\\=`\\='\"#$] is quoted with a backslash; for DOS/Windows, all
 the parts of the pattern which don't include wildcard characters are
 quoted with double quotes.
 
diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el
index a390494..0756c79 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/vhdl-mode.el
@@ -4684,7 +4684,7 @@ vhdl-mode
   SPECIAL MENUES:
     As an alternative to the speedbar, an index menu can be added (set
     option `vhdl-index-menu' to non-nil) or made accessible as a mouse menu
-    (e.g. add \"(global-set-key '[S-down-mouse-3] 'imenu)\" to your start-up
+    (e.g. add \"(global-set-key [S-down-mouse-3] \\='imenu)\" to your start-up
     file) for browsing the file contents (is not populated if buffer is
     larger than 256000).  Also, a source file menu can be
     added (set option `vhdl-source-file-menu' to non-nil) for browsing the
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index 43660d7..81570d4 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -3760,9 +3760,9 @@ replace-regexp-in-string
 of STRING, the same substring that is the actual text of the match which
 is passed to REP as its argument.
 
-To replace only the first match (if any), make REGEXP match up to \\'
+To replace only the first match (if any), make REGEXP match up to \\\\='
 and replace a sub-expression, e.g.
-  (replace-regexp-in-string \"\\\\(foo\\\\).*\\\\'\" \"bar\" \" foo foo\" nil nil 1)
+  (replace-regexp-in-string \"\\\\(foo\\\\).*\\\\\\='\" \"bar\" \" foo foo\" nil nil 1)
     => \" bar foo\""
 
   ;; To avoid excessive consing from multiple matches in long strings,
diff --git a/lisp/view.el b/lisp/view.el
index 830073a..ff7d2c9 100644
--- a/lisp/view.el
+++ b/lisp/view.el
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ view-mode
 	  Mark ring is pushed at start of every successful search and when
 	  jump to line occurs.  The mark is set on jump to buffer start or end.
 \\[point-to-register]	save current position in character register.
-'	go to position saved in character register.
+\\='	go to position saved in character register.
 s	do forward incremental search.
 r	do reverse incremental search.
 \\[View-search-regexp-forward]	searches forward for regular expression, starting after current page.
diff --git a/src/nsfns.m b/src/nsfns.m
index ea09908..9bc6c1d 100644
--- a/src/nsfns.m
+++ b/src/nsfns.m
@@ -3125,7 +3125,7 @@ Example: Install an icon Gnus.tiff and execute the following code
 
   (setq ns-icon-type-alist
         (append ns-icon-type-alist
-                '((\"^\\\\*\\\\(Group\\\\*$\\\\|Summary \\\\|Article\\\\*$\\\\)\"
+                \\='((\"^\\\\*\\\\(Group\\\\*$\\\\|Summary \\\\|Article\\\\*$\\\\)\"
                    . \"Gnus\"))))
 
 When you miniaturize a Group, Summary or Article frame, Gnus.tiff will
diff --git a/src/syntax.c b/src/syntax.c
index 8e14bf3..16b7fab 100644
--- a/src/syntax.c
+++ b/src/syntax.c
@@ -3079,7 +3079,7 @@ but before count is used up, nil is returned.  */)
 DEFUN ("backward-prefix-chars", Fbackward_prefix_chars, Sbackward_prefix_chars,
        0, 0, 0,
        doc: /* Move point backward over any number of chars with prefix syntax.
-This includes chars with expression prefix syntax class (') and those with
+This includes chars with expression prefix syntax class (\\=') and those with
 the prefix syntax flag (p).  */)
   (void)
 {

Message #10 received at 23696-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 23696-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.0.94; Wrong quoting in several doc strings
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 09:32:07 -0700

Thanks, those doc fixes all look good, and I installed them into 
emacs-25 in your name.

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