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Re: elementary: how to display a ' in a docstring
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: elementary: how to display a ' in a docstring |
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Sat, 7 May 2016 13:23:29 -0700 |
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Uwe Brauer wrote:
> "Please set `vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles' to '(\"{rev}\"))), please note
> the `''."
To get the effect you asked for, quote the apostrophes like this: "Please set
`vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles' to \\='(\"{rev}\"))), please note the `\\=''."
See the text-quoting-style documentation in the Elisp manual.
By the way, the effect you asked for is not the recommended style in Emacs
documentation strings. When discussing a Lisp value, the usual style is to give
the value instead of Lisp code that would evaluate to the value. The
abovementioned doc string could be reworded to something like "Please set
`vc-hg-symbolic-revision-styles' to the list (\"{rev}\")."