Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/15/2016 04:13 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > >There is plenty of precedent for straight quoting in other text files
> > >in Emacs, as well as in etc/NEWS itself before today's changes
> Is that because you changed `this' into curly quotes

No, I first changed etc/NEWS to use straight quotes, and switched to 
curved quotes only after what I understood to be John's suggestion to 
that effect. However, later discussion indicated that straight quotes 
were more popular, so I switched back.

Although grave quotes are popular Emacs source code they have never been 
the only style for all text, and straight quotes (though of course not 
perfect) are a better choice for plain text intended for users.

There is longstanding precedent for using straight quotes in some Emacs 
news items. It's not just etc/NEWS before the recent round of changes; 
for example, the NEWS entry for Emacs 1.4 (in etc/NEWS.1-17), circa 
1985, uses straight quotes for its only quoted string, presumably to 
distinguish the quotes from the grave accents elsewhere in the entry.

It shouldn't be a problem for users if NEWS uses straight quotes from 
here on out.