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Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Q: text-quoting-style -- is its value a string or a symbol?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:17:03 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> It doesn't. It tells me it's a symbol. Why? because of the way it is quoted:
> with single quotes, not double quotes. Single quotes is how we mark symbols
> in doc strings.

Raman, When you say "reading the online documentation" in your original
report, do you mean the *Help* text, or the HTML generated for the manual? I
want to be sure we're all talking about the same thing.

If you see `foo' written (for example, in *Help*), it is always a symbol
(using either those characters, or fancy Unicode single quotes). As Eli says,
double-quotes are used to denote strings.

John



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