Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9d35bb8: Fix minor quoting problems in doc strings

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I think it's perfectly OK to start using curly-quotes in a few places,
> and to start adding support for curly-quotes (e.g. to make it easier to
> insert them, and to make*Help*  buffer xrefs for them, to seamlessly
> downgrade them to simple quotes on non-utf-8 terminals, ...), and
> I think we should*also*  add jit/font-lock support to display-upgrade
> `...' into curly-quotes in those cases we deem "obvious enough".

The master branch already supports downgrading to simple quotes.  Support for 
*Help* buffer xrefs is in the draft patches in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20385#295>, 
a patchset I just now published; rather than font-locking this patchset 
substitutes characters, an approach that worked better for me.

The main thing on my todo list is the first item on your list: making it easier 
to insert curved quotes.  This is Bug#20545, where the proposed patch 
<http://bugs.gnu.org/20545#5> needs a bit of hacking to get it to work well with 
electric-pair-mode.  I plan to look into that soon.  I'm thinking of renaming it 
to Electric Quote mode as "Electric Punct mode" may be a bit too ambitious.