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

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   Emacs's use of an obsolescent quoting style is merely a constant
  > minor annoyance, and it's obviously something that we can work
  > around when we teach Emacs to students -- we can even give them a
  > little history lesson as we go.

If the change causes no problems at all, it could be worth while
to fix such a minor problem.

But it will cause problems, with searching -- unless we implement a
fix for that.  People are discussing a different but related search
feature; perhaps the search problem for disguised curly quotes will be
eliminated.  But until it is, we should not use curly quotes in doc
strings.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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