Re: [O] [PATCH] Fix the single quote printed in the message printed by org-table-edit-formulas

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/10/2016 09:47 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> How can I make the help-echo property display the ` and ' verbatim, 
> without curving them?

Help strings are considered documentation, so you need to escape special 
characters in help-echo property strings the same way you'd escape them 
in doc strings. Something like this:

(let* ((str1 "\nhello")
       (echo-str1 "left single quote (`) right single quote (') grave 
accent (\\=`) apostrophe (\\=') kill-region (\\[kill-region])")
       ov)
  (let* ((b (+ 1 (point)))
         (e (+ b (string-width str1))))
    (insert str1)
    (setq ov (make-overlay b e)))
  (overlay-put ov 'help-echo echo-str1))