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| author | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2022-06-04 13:29:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2022-06-04 13:29:53 +0200 |
| commit | 01b192534af6a319b8c9b3e8730fd61bd8e74710 (patch) | |
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Further notes about quotation marks in the manual
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Note that we
previously recommended using single quotation marks (bug#55780).
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/tips.texi b/doc/lispref/tips.texi index 82325502209..30146a89ebf 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/tips.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/tips.texi @@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ Note that when Emacs displays these doc strings, Emacs will usually display @samp{`} (grave accent) as @samp{‘} (left single quotation mark) and @samp{'} (apostrophe) as @samp{’} (right single quotation mark), if the display supports displaying these characters. -@xref{Keys in Documentation}. +@xref{Keys in Documentation}. (Some previous versions of this section +recommended using the non-@acronym{ASCII} single quotation marks +directly in doc strings, but this is now discouraged, since that leads +to broken help string displays on terminals that don't support +displaying those characters.) @cindex hyperlinks in documentation strings Help mode automatically creates a hyperlink when a documentation string |