Emacs: text-quoting-style
stop describe-function from converting quote characters in docstring
2023-08-04 starting in
Emacs 28 (Released 2022-04)
, describe-function
converts many quote characters in docstring.
〔see Elisp: Docstring Markup〕
it create problems, such that 'symbol
will be displayed as ’symbol
.
to have a literal
'symbol
, you need to write
\\='symbol
in docstring.
to stop any conversion, put this in your Emacs Init File:
;; stop describe-function etc from converting many quote characters in docstring. (setq text-quoting-style 'grave) ;; 2021-12-21. problem is due to Alan Mackenzie. see ;; Emacs Lisp Doc String Curly Quote Controversy ;; http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/emacs_lisp_curly_quote_controversy.html