Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 26b56dc: Fix some single quotes in documentation

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/14/2016 01:50 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> Why is this the "simplest way"? Just for a visual correspondence with what we
> display in other contexts (PDF and within Emacs)?

"Simplest" in the sense that it is the least work to implement and to 
explain to other developers, under the constraints that (1) user-facing 
text (e.g., C-h n) properly quotes according to the GNU coding 
standards, and (2) other file-viewing programs behave adequately on 
etc/NEWS even on old-fashioned text consoles.

There is plenty of precedent for straight quoting in other text files in 
Emacs, as well as in etc/NEWS itself before today's changes, so I'm 
inclined to go back to it in this particular case even though it's 
neither my first preference nor yours.