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RE: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 22:05:43 -0700 (PDT)

> > Those that represent symbol quotations in doc strings should be removed.
> 
> They work fine just as they are, and in some ways they work better than the
> straight quotes do.  Users can see them as straight quotes if they like.
>
> There is not a strong argument for removing them.

No strong argument was ever given for adding them.

There was never _any_ argument given for adding them, beyond
your complaint that you find `...' ugly.

You've turned Emacs upside down and inside out, to make it do
what you want.  Users and Emacs Dev will be dealing with the
aftermath for a long time to come.  Alas, no one stopped you
in your crusade, so here we are.



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