From 01102f0b42076fc732783b6bf852cadc2609527a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:33:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention quoting in user manual * doc/emacs/display.texi (Display Custom): Briefly mention quoting. Lack of documentation noted by Alan Mackenzie in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-09/msg00632.html --- doc/emacs/display.texi | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi index 2aa79e1161..a668317e85 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/display.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi @@ -1839,6 +1839,13 @@ Display Custom @code{tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors} with a address@hidden argument to suppress the effect of bold-face in this case. + Emacs infers how to quote in help and messages by examining its +environment. By default, Emacs quotes @t{‘like this’} with curved +single quotes if displayable, and @t{`like this'} with grave accent +and apostrophe otherwise. @xref{Keys in Documentation,, Substituting +Key Bindings in Documentation, elisp, The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference +Manual}. + @vindex display-raw-bytes-as-hex Raw bytes are displayed in octal format by default, for example a byte with a decimal value of 128 is displayed as @code{\200}. To -- 2.13.5