>From dab4b8b8fe444412ac017278ee4c801f2fe6fb24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:08:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Mention text-quoting-style in user manual * doc/emacs/display.texi (Display Custom): Document text-quoting-style, briefly. Lack of documentation noted by Alan Mackenzie in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-09/msg00632.html --- doc/emacs/display.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/emacs/display.texi b/doc/emacs/display.texi index 2aa79e1161..878632692e 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/display.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi @@ -1839,6 +1839,15 @@ Display Custom @code{tty-suppress-bold-inverse-default-colors} with a address@hidden argument to suppress the effect of bold-face in this case. address@hidden text-quoting-style + Emacs infers how to quote in messages, help and info 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. If the default does not work for you, you +can override it by setting the variable @code{text-quoting-style}. address@hidden 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