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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 08/20/2015 04:55 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Although it
> simplifies substitute-command-string, quite a few docstrings quote with
> apostrophes only when quoting non-symbols, e.g., for
> rfc2368-mailto-prequery-index:
>
>    "Describes the portion of the url between 'mailto:' and '?'."
>
> and it's not right to turn these into right single quotation marks:
>
>    "Describes the portion of the url between ’mailto:’ and ’?’."

Isn't it?

Doesn't keeping the straight quotes in the output goes against your 
stated goal of improving typography in Emacs?

> This sort of thing is why Electric Quote mode doesn't transform isolated
> apostrophes, and there is something to be said for keeping
> substitute-command-keys somewhat consistent with that mode.

Whenever EQM doesn't translated isolated quotes, but the user needs 
them, they'll have to learn entering them the long way.