Re: Please stop putting curly quotes into doc strings!

[Paul Eggert]

On 09/09/2015 12:55 PM, T.V Raman wrote:
> The only thing I'm asking for is that curly quotes in files  where
> they exist be removed so  the codebase goes back to a pristine state.

That is too strong.  Although I already removed almost all the curved 
quotes I introduced into doc strings, there were a few justifiable 
exceptions.  For example, when the code is about curved quotes 
themselves it is fine for its documentation strings to use curved 
quotes.  Here's the doc string for text-quoting-style:

  Style to use for single quotes when generating text.
  `curve' means quote with curved single quotes \\=‘like this\\=’.
  `straight' means quote with straight apostrophes \\='like this\\='.
  `grave' means quote with grave accent and apostrophe \\=`like this\\='.
  The default value nil acts like `curve' if curved single quotes are
  displayable, and like `grave' otherwise.

The two curved quotes in this docstring are good, because they show the 
user what curved quotes look like.