Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > > The main change here is that from now on, particularly if so-called
  > > Electric Quote mode [*] is used, we're going to end up with a chaotic
  > > mix of ascii quotes and curly quotes in our source code.

  > Although I also would prefer a simpler approach (one that consistently uses 
  > curved quotes), you've objected to that, necessitating a "chaotic" compromise.

There is a much simpler solution: don't use curly quotes in doc
strings in source code.

  > For years Emacs has had significant problems in editing and searching and 
  > generating non-ASCII text.  Making Emacs better in this area will inevitably 
  > have teething problems, and we'll inevitably come up with worse solutions before 
  > coming up with better ones.

These are totally separate areas.  By all means work on improving them,
but that is no reason to have curly quotes in doc strings in source code.

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