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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | bug#20385: [PROPOSED PATCH] Support quoting 'like this' in doc strings |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:37:43 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Emacs's traditional doc string style has been to quote symbols
> `like this'. This worked well on older terminals where ` and '
> were symmetric quotes, but nowadays this quoting looks odd and
> it's better to use apostrophe for single-quoted ASCII text.
> Add support for quoting either way, suggesting the newer style.
I'm not sure I like this. Yet, I don't like the look for `...' either.
Stefan
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