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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:39:35 +0300
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On 06/10/2015 07:20 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

Yes, of course.  It should be normal to type quotes as themselves in doc
strings.  It's basic WYSIWYG.

One doesn't usually see WYSIWYG in program source files.

I think it's okay (more or less) if you want to type a curly quote in a docstring if it has no secondary meaning. Less so if you want to use it to delineate Lisp symbols or code.





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