Fix minor quoting problems in doc strings

Most of these fixes involve escaping grave accents that are
actually intended to be grave accents, not left quotes.
(Bug#20385)

5 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/iso-acc.el b/lisp/obsolete/iso-acc.el
index eaf732ebbd5..499a9da1040 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/iso-acc.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/iso-acc.el
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ See the function `iso-accents-mode'."
 
 (defcustom iso-accents-enable '(?' ?` ?^ ?\" ?~ ?/)
   "List of accent keys that become prefixes in ISO Accents mode.
-The default is (?' ?` ?^ ?\" ?~ ?/), which contains all the supported
+The default is (?' ?\\=` ?^ ?\" ?~ ?/), which contains all the supported
 accent keys.  If you set this variable to a list in which some of those
 characters are missing, the missing ones do not act as accents.
 
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ the language you choose)."
   "Toggle ISO Accents mode, in which accents modify the following letter.
 This permits easy insertion of accented characters according to ISO-8859-1.
 When Iso-accents mode is enabled, accent character keys
-\(`, ', \", ^, / and ~) do not self-insert; instead, they modify the following
+\(\\=`, ', \", ^, / and ~) do not self-insert; instead, they modify the following
 letter key so that it inserts an ISO accented letter.
 
 You can customize ISO Accents mode to a particular language
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/scribe.el b/lisp/obsolete/scribe.el
index 122b1bfd67b..68b2208063b 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/scribe.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/scribe.el
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
   :group 'scribe)
 
 (defcustom scribe-electric-quote nil
-  "Non-nil makes insert of double quote use `` or '' depending on context."
+  "Non-nil makes insert of double quote use \\=`\\=` or '' depending on context."
   :type 'boolean
   :group 'scribe)
 
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Interesting variables:
   Non-nil makes Scribe mode use a different style of paragraph separation.
 
 `scribe-electric-quote'
-  Non-nil makes insert of double quote use `` or '' depending on context.
+  Non-nil makes insert of double quote use \\=`\\=` or '' depending on context.
 
 `scribe-electric-parenthesis'
   Non-nil makes an open-parenthesis char (one of `([<{')
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ to skip backward."
   (forward-char -1))
 
 (defun scribe-insert-quote (count)
-  "Insert ``, '' or \" according to preceding character.
-If `scribe-electric-quote' is non-nil, insert ``, '' or \" according
+  "Insert \\=`\\=`, '' or \" according to preceding character.
+If `scribe-electric-quote' is non-nil, insert \\=`\\=`, '' or \" according
 to preceding character.  With numeric arg N, always insert N \" characters.
 Else just insert \"."
   (interactive "P")
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/sregex.el b/lisp/obsolete/sregex.el
index 49590726598..80b2c92be09 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/sregex.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/sregex.el
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ Here are the clauses allowed in an `sregex' or `sregexq' expression:
   given set.  See below for how to construct a CHAR-CLAUSE.
 
 - the symbol `bot'
-  Stands for \"\\\\`\", matching the empty string at the beginning of
+  Stands for \"\\\\\\=`\", matching the empty string at the beginning of
   text (beginning of a string or of a buffer).
 
 - the symbol `eot'
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el b/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el
index c5959d193d7..981426581c2 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/tpu-edt.el
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ GOLD is the ASCII 7-bit escape sequence <ESC>OP.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'tpu-mark-flag)
 
 (defun tpu-set-mode-line (for-tpu)
-  "Set ``minor-mode-alist'' for TPU-edt, or reset it to default Emacs."
+  "Set `minor-mode-alist' for TPU-edt, or reset it to default Emacs."
   (let ((entries '((tpu-newline-and-indent-p tpu-newline-and-indent-string)
                    (tpu-rectangular-p tpu-rectangle-string)
                    (tpu-direction-string tpu-direction-string)
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper.el b/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper.el
index 4c5ea13b3b7..3115038999f 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/tpu-mapper.el
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ suit your tastes (or to cope with those silly Sun and PC keypads).
 Finally, you will be prompted for the name of the file to store the key
 definitions.  If you chose the default, TPU-edt will find it and load it
 automatically.  If you specify a different file name, you will need to
-set the variable ``tpu-xkeys-file'' before starting TPU-edt.  Here's how
+set the variable `tpu-xkeys-file' before starting TPU-edt.  Here's how
 you might go about doing that in your init file.
 
   (setq tpu-xkeys-file (expand-file-name \"~/.my-emacs-x-keys\"))