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No curved quotes in format-prompt and minibuffer-default-prompt-format

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 51040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#51040: No curved quotes in format-prompt and minibuffer-default-prompt-format
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:21:52 -0700

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

> Ouch! what a mess do we have with this stuff!
>
>   . the doc string of text-quoting-style the function doesn't document
>     its return values, but refers to the variable, so it's easy to
>     conclude that it also returns nil
>   . that doc string says "effective style", without explaining the
>     special processing of nil
>   . the function is not in the ELisp manual, but the variable is,
>     twice(!)

Yeah, it's a mess.  I suggest we address the documentation issues on
emacs-28 with the attached patch.

I compared the duplicate text, and the only thing that was different is
that the word "variable" had been changed into "option".  So I deleted
the one in the wrong section and that incorrectly said "variable".

[0001-Doc-fixes-for-text-quoting-style.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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