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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > When a grave accent and any matching apostrophe are copied from a docstring 
to a 
  > *Help* buffer, they are converted to left and right quotation marks 
according to 
  > user preference.  Characters can be escaped with \= to avoid conversion 
(this is 
  > a longstanding escape convention in docstrings).

Oh, that's the feature you mean.  I'm fine with that.

  > A few doc strings have unusual quoting and use \=X escape sequences to 
display a 
  > quoting character X without transformation.

I have no complaints.  It is not a screw to edit, and it doesn't
need to be used often.

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