From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: elementary: how to display a ' in a docstring Date: Sat, 07 May 2016 18:00:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87h9e9ychf.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462644622 10427 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2016 18:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 18:10:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 20:10:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1az6cv-0003c5-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 20:06:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az6cv-0002QH-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az6cr-0002MO-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az6cn-0000hj-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:06:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1az6cm-0000hT-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 14:06:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1az6aA-0000vc-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2016 20:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from 248.red-83-40-213.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.40.213.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 May 2016 20:04:02 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by 248.red-83-40-213.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 May 2016 20:04:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 248.red-83-40-213.dynamicip.rima-tde.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vPPlrT5/Xkjs0xujO/H2Yo5h7qM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203674 Archived-At: Hello Sorry for this elementary question But I would like to modify a doc string of a variable such that it displays: Please set vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles to '("{rev}"). So I tried "Please set `vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles' to '(\"{rev}\"))), please note the `''." But when I use describe variable, the ' of '(\"{rev}\"))) is not correctly displayed. What shall I do? thanks Uwe Brauer