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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master b533552 2/5: Documentation fixes re quotes
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:42:56 -0700
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Dmitry Gutov wrote:
They aren't markup, because you insist that they "stand for themselves"

They’re both. They’re markup that typically stand for themselves when generating text, and that’s a win over markup that doesn’t do that. It’s like Markdown’s syntax for URLs: you just type http://example.com and it just works. (Emacs docstrings would do well to support that idea too, but I’m digressing....)



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