Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 03:26:38 -0700
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, 
>       Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii 
> <eliz@gnu.org>, juri@linkov.net
> 
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> 
> > FWIW, I too do not see why ` would be "ugly".  I attach screenshots of
> > what that character looks like in ten popular programming fonts; each
> > shows the nine (!) possible conventions, together with the Unicode quotes.
> 
> This shows that Unicode quotes consistently look good, while the others
> look antiquated at best.  The single apostrophes on both sides ('like
> this') is also okay, but still worse from a typographic standpoint.

I think that was the conclusion back when this was discussed, and we
decided to use the "second best" due to the issue with Unicode support
in text-only terminals.

> IMO, we should automatically display in comments and docstrings whatever
> quote character the user prefers according to `text-quoting-style', and
> automatically insert the correct quote character when typing "'".

Patches welcome to make that happen.  One idea for implementation
would be to use the display-table feature.