Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Why not the other way around: let `format' translate the quotes, unless
> they are written as (format "Rename \\=`%s' to \\=`%s'" old new)

Unfortunately 'format' is often used to format regular expressions that contain 
grave accents.  For example:

(format "\\`%s\\'" (car e))

We could change all the Emacs code that does this, but I expect user code does 
it too, and so it'd probably be a mistake to alter 'format' in the way you're 
suggesting.