From 01b192534af6a319b8c9b3e8730fd61bd8e74710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 13:29:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Further notes about quotation marks in the manual * doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Note that we previously recommended using single quotation marks (bug#55780). --- doc/lispref/tips.texi | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/lispref/tips.texi b/doc/lispref/tips.texi index 82325502209..30146a89ebf 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/tips.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/tips.texi @@ -707,7 +707,11 @@ Note that when Emacs displays these doc strings, Emacs will usually display @samp{`} (grave accent) as @samp{‘} (left single quotation mark) and @samp{'} (apostrophe) as @samp{’} (right single quotation mark), if the display supports displaying these characters. -@xref{Keys in Documentation}. +@xref{Keys in Documentation}. (Some previous versions of this section +recommended using the non-@acronym{ASCII} single quotation marks +directly in doc strings, but this is now discouraged, since that leads +to broken help string displays on terminals that don't support +displaying those characters.) @cindex hyperlinks in documentation strings Help mode automatically creates a hyperlink when a documentation string -- 2.39.2