Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ffb6ce 5/5: Quoting fixes in lisp/international and lisp/leim

[Richard Stallman]

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  > As long as curly quotes are relegated to displayed messages and Help 
  > buffers, you'll never need to type them as input for external tools.

  > And as for isearch, in the rare cases where looking for a beginning of a 
  > symbol reference is important, you could input \_< or \_> instead.

I think you're right -- but that's not how it seems things are.
We were informed today that there are over
900 curly quotes in the Emacs sources now.
Why are they in the sources?
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