Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Good point.  Instead they use some kind of escaping convention so as to
>> avoid ambiguity.  We could try that.
> And we already do!
> We use `\\=', as documented in `substitute-command-keys'.

Several problems:
- it's butt-ugly.
- I can never remember it (why can't we use a standard quoting convention).
- The ambiguity shows up not only in the source docstring, but also in
  the *formatted* docstring after this quoting has been removed
  (e.g. regexp to recognize `...' xrefs and highlight them).
- Same ambiguity shows up in other formatted outputs (e.g. Info files).

IOW there are various places where `...' is used and some of them offer
some kind of quoting while others don't.


        Stefan