; * lisp/vc/diff-mode.el (diff-mode): Scare-quote 'normal'.

(cherry picked from commit 24db9b79623a04207aeff5071f1389ad38f66672)

diff --git a/lisp/vc/diff-mode.el b/lisp/vc/diff-mode.el
index 1c3f7162abbb3d40b1014ffa0d9bd9d57277c9bb..f868eaf7c1baa4d3a4c5076396f8667af832d075 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/vc/diff-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/diff-mode.el
@@ -1614,8 +1614,9 @@ else cover the whole buffer."
 ;;;###autoload
 (define-derived-mode diff-mode fundamental-mode "Diff"
   "Major mode for viewing/editing context diffs.
-Supports unified and context diffs as well as (to a lesser extent)
-normal diffs.
+Supports unified and context diffs as well as, to a lesser extent, diffs
+in the old \"normal\" format.  (Unified diffs have become the standard,
+most commonly encountered format.)
 
 When the buffer is read-only, the ESC prefix is not necessary.
 If you edit the buffer manually, `diff-mode' will try to update the hunk