Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Tex mode automatically turns " into `` or '' according to the context.
> Couldn't we easily have a mode for use in Text mode, that turns ' into
> ‘ or ’ according to the context?  (Maybe we already do.)

Yes we do, in Emacs master.  It's Electric Quote mode.  You can try it out by 
putting this into your ~/.emacs file:

(if (fboundp 'electric-quote-mode)
    (electric-quote-mode))