From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In docstrings: `sym' and ‘sym’ are equivalent to mismatched `sym’ and ‘sym' (and ‘'sym’, nor `undefined' cannot be used)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 18:34:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftx3tds6.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <362fce9b-4e02-fe82-a91c-c2213afa2223@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:01:04 -0700")
On 2018-10-18 at 08:01, Paul Eggert wrote:
> As Clément wrote, you could use `\\='more' if you want the curled
> version to look like ‘'more’. However, the curled version shouldn't
> look like that. It should look like ‘more’ without the apostrophe. Doc
> strings should talk about the values in question, not about code that
> would yield those values.
Yes, as I said, just found out that in the manual: the correct behavior
is prefixing that curly-quoted symbol with the word symbol it seems.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-18 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-18 14:07 In docstrings: `sym' and ‘sym’ are equivalent to mismatched `sym’ and ‘sym' (and ‘'sym’, nor `undefined' cannot be used) Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 14:35 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-10-18 14:58 ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-18 15:01 ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-18 16:34 ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
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