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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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master 01b192534a: Further notes about quotation marks in the manual |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Jun 2022 07:30:33 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit 01b192534af6a319b8c9b3e8730fd61bd8e74710
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Further notes about quotation marks in the manual
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Note that we
previously recommended using single quotation marks (bug#55780).
---
doc/lispref/tips.texi | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/tips.texi b/doc/lispref/tips.texi
index 8232550220..30146a89eb 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/tips.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/tips.texi
@@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ Note that when Emacs displays these doc strings, Emacs
will usually
display @samp{`} (grave accent) as @samp{‘} (left single quotation
mark) and @samp{'} (apostrophe) as @samp{’} (right single quotation
mark), if the display supports displaying these characters.
-@xref{Keys in Documentation}.
+@xref{Keys in Documentation}. (Some previous versions of this section
+recommended using the non-@acronym{ASCII} single quotation marks
+directly in doc strings, but this is now discouraged, since that leads
+to broken help string displays on terminals that don't support
+displaying those characters.)
@cindex hyperlinks in documentation strings
Help mode automatically creates a hyperlink when a documentation string
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