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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
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    The apostrophes are put in the doc string so that links can be parsed in the
    Help buffer, not for the end user.

The apostrophes follow a general GNU convention for indicating symbol
names in text.  We have followed that convention for 20 years.
So I am not going to say yes to this change.