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


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:01:24 -0700
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Elias Mårtenson wrote:
I'm assuming that the existence of the curly quotes will not screw anything
up (as in: the application will still work and not crash in your face) in
older versions of Emacs. Can anyone confirm this?

That's correct. Curved single quotes in docstrings do not crash older Emacs. They're treated as ordinary characters, much as curved double quotes or accented letters in words like "Bahá'í". The main downside in older Emacs is that symbols quoted via curved quotes are not highlighted or otherwise treated as special in *Help* buffers.



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