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Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!


From: raman
Subject: Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:27:49 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

Definitely is not urgent for many of us on this thread. What is urgent though 
is that the remaining artifacts from the failed magic quotes be removed which 
is what we are all asking for -- let's do that -- and move on.> Dmitry Gutov 
wrote:
>> maybe you can extract the set of pairs to be translated (or highlighted) to a
>> defvar (not defcustom).
>
> That would be some work; it is not just creating a defvar, it is
> making sure it is used consistently everywhere (e.g., arbitrary chars
> would need quoting in the appropriate regular expressions).  If there
> is a demonstrated need for it then it could be added as part of the
> code to satisfy that need.  It does not sound urgent.
>

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