RE: Emacs is lying to me, or curly quotes strike again

[Drew Adams]

> > (And why the extra newline after the first docstring line, BTW?
> > That's not conventional, and it doesn't help users, IMHO.)
> 
> Isn't it? It seems fairly common in my (limited) experience.

No, it isn't.

It is sometimes found in libraries not distributed with Emacs,
but it is not commonly found in libraries distributed with
Emacs (yes, there are some occurrences- the doc-string police
are understaffed ;-)).