Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!

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

On 09/10/2015 08:46 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

 > outcommented stuff that would become non-standard when commented back

Thanks, I missed those, since I didn’t look at comments.  Fixed.

 > Comments and messages like

Thanks, I missed those message instances, as somebody else introduced 
those curved quotes and I looked only at the curved quotes I 
introduced.  I changed them to use grave quotes just now.

It’s OK to use curved quotes in English text in comments.

 > Well, various text files

It’s OK for English text in text files to use curved quotes.  In 
etc/PROBLEMS, the text is showing an Emacs diagnostic as presented to 
the user.  This normally uses curved quotes nowadays, so curved quotes 
are preferable there.  The other curved quotes you mention also look OK.

 > various messages like

Those messages generate info files, which typically use curved quotes 
nowadays, so curved quotes are appropriate there.

 > The English adventure "dunnet"

Please feel free to go through dunnet and change it to use 
substitute-command-keys or format-message so that it generates grave 
quotes for dunnet users who prefer that style.  I did not think it worth 
bothering about, myself.