Quote less in manuals

The manuals often used quotes ``...'' when it is better to use @dfn or
@code or capitalized words or no quoting at all.  For example, there is
no need for the `` and '' in “if a variable has one effect for
@code{nil} values and another effect for ``non-@code{nil}'' values”.
Reword the Emacs, Lisp intro, and Lisp reference manuals to eliminate
unnecessary quoting like this, and to use @dfn etc. instead when called
for (Bug#21472).

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/lispref/searching.texi b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
index 60360cb98a9..6dc4a16c765 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/searching.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/searching.texi
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ match.
 @end deffn
 
 @deffn Command word-search-forward string &optional limit noerror repeat
-This function searches forward from point for a ``word'' match for
+This function searches forward from point for a word match for
 @var{string}.  If it finds a match, it sets point to the end of the
 match found, and returns the new value of point.
 
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ preceding expression either once or not at all.  For example,
 
 @item @samp{*?}, @samp{+?}, @samp{??}
 @cindex non-greedy repetition characters in regexp
-These are ``non-greedy'' variants of the operators @samp{*}, @samp{+}
+These are non-greedy variants of the operators @samp{*}, @samp{+}
 and @samp{?}.  Where those operators match the largest possible
 substring (consistent with matching the entire containing expression),
 the non-greedy variants match the smallest possible substring
@@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ avoids modifying the match data.
 @defun looking-at regexp
 This function determines whether the text in the current buffer directly
 following point matches the regular expression @var{regexp}.  ``Directly
-following'' means precisely that: the search is ``anchored'' and it can
+following'' means precisely that: the search is anchored and it can
 succeed only starting with the first character following point.  The
 result is @code{t} if so, @code{nil} otherwise.
 
@@ -1759,18 +1759,18 @@ in two ways:
 
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
-The ``key bindings'' are not commands, just symbols that are meaningful
+The key bindings are not commands, just symbols that are meaningful
 to the functions that use this map.
 
 @item
 Prefix keys are not supported; each key binding must be for a
 single-event key sequence.  This is because the functions don't use
 @code{read-key-sequence} to get the input; instead, they read a single
-event and look it up ``by hand''.
+event and look it up by hand.
 @end itemize
 @end defvar
 
-Here are the meaningful ``bindings'' for @code{query-replace-map}.
+Here are the meaningful bindings for @code{query-replace-map}.
 Several of them are meaningful only for @code{query-replace} and
 friends.
 
@@ -1835,7 +1835,7 @@ Display some help, then ask again.
 @defvar multi-query-replace-map
 This variable holds a keymap that extends @code{query-replace-map} by
 providing additional keybindings that are useful in multi-buffer
-replacements.  The additional ``bindings'' are:
+replacements.  The additional bindings are:
 
 @table @code
 @item automatic-all