Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Paul Eggert]

Nicolas Petton wrote:
> Paul Eggert<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > >Tassilo Horn wrote:
> > > >>But we're still referring to a function argument `foo' as FOO in
> > > >>docstrings, no?
> > >
> > >Yes, there's no proposal to change that.
> I don't understand.  When I enable electric-quote-mode and type `hello'
> in a docstring, I get ‘hello‘ instead.

Tasillo was talking about function arguments, not about functions.  For example, 
when I type 'C-h f car RET' I see the following, and here the argument is still 
written as all-caps LIST without quotation of any sort.

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car is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.

(car LIST)

Return the car of LIST.  If arg is nil, return nil.
Error if arg is not nil and not a cons cell.  See also ‘car-safe’.

See Info node ‘(elisp)Cons Cells’ for a discussion of related basic
Lisp concepts such as car, cdr, cons cell and list.