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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-08-26 14:05:43 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2015-08-26 14:09:07 -0700
commit1be208c2b061a6849760579f185be9b9e05de569 (patch)
treeb32d6e3802c70289f21661ffc9ee43a7e57a5f48 /etc/DISTRIB
parent582222b557b271d3dc2f27138c39c3ae5d915030 (diff)
downloademacs-1be208c2b061a6849760579f185be9b9e05de569.tar.gz
Prefer straight quoting in some etc text files
These files are plain text and might be used by non-Emacs apps. They’re mostly ASCII, so just use straight quotes.
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diff --git a/etc/DISTRIB b/etc/DISTRIB
index 7b33cb8ee7f..a95a646702a 100644
--- a/etc/DISTRIB
+++ b/etc/DISTRIB
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ copy and change it--those freedoms are what "free software" means.
The precise conditions for copying and modification are stated in the
document "GNU General Public License," a copy of which is required to
be distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs. It is usually in a file
-named `COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions
+named 'COPYING' in the same directory as this file. These conditions
are designed to make sure that everyone who has a copy of GNU Emacs
(including modified versions) has the freedom to redistribute and
change it.
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ online store at http://shop.fsf.org.
Emacs has been run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and on many
Unix systems, on a variety of types of cpu, as well as on MSDOS,
-Windows and MacOS. See the file `etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs
+Windows and MacOS. See the file 'etc/MACHINES' in the Emacs
distribution for a full list of machines that GNU Emacs has been tested
on, with machine-specific installation notes and warnings.
GNU Emacs is distributed with no warranty (see the General Public
-License for full details, in the file `COPYING' in this directory (see
+License for full details, in the file 'COPYING' in this directory (see
above)), and neither I nor the Free Software Foundation promises any
kind of support or assistance to users. The foundation keeps a list
of people who are willing to offer support and assistance for hire.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ you can contribute.
Your donations will help to support the development of additional GNU
software. GNU/Linux systems (variants of GNU, based on the kernel
Linux) have millions of users, but there is still much to be done.
-For more information on GNU, see the file `GNU' in this directory (see
+For more information on GNU, see the file 'GNU' in this directory (see
above).
Richard M Stallman