Support curved quotes in doc strings

Emacs's traditional doc string style has been to quote symbols
`like this'.  This worked well on now-obsolete terminals where
` and ' were symmetric quotes, but nowadays curved quotes
‘like this’ look better.  Support quoting the new way too.
(Bug#20385)
* doc/lispref/tips.texi (Documentation Tips): Symbols can be quoted
‘like-this’ as well as `like-this'.
* etc/NEWS: Mention this.
* lisp/cedet/mode-local.el (overload-docstring-extension)
(mode-local-print-binding, mode-local-describe-bindings-2):
* lisp/cus-theme.el (describe-theme-1):
* lisp/descr-text.el (describe-text-properties-1, describe-char):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el (checkdoc-this-string-valid-engine):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-generic.el (cl--generic-describe):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio-opt.el (eieio-help-class)
(eieio-help-constructor):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (describe-package-1):
* lisp/faces.el (describe-face):
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-fns--key-bindings)
(help-fns--compiler-macro, help-fns--parent-mode, help-fns--obsolete):
(help-fns--interactive-only, describe-function-1):
(describe-variable):
* lisp/help.el (describe-mode):
* lisp/international/mule-cmds.el (describe-input-method)
(describe-language-environment):
* lisp/international/mule-diag.el (describe-character-set)
(print-coding-system-briefly, list-input-methods)
(list-input-methods-1):
Insert curved quotes rather than grave accent and apostrophe.
* lisp/cedet/srecode/texi.el (srecode-texi-texify-docstring):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el (checkdoc-this-string-valid-engine)
(checkdoc-proper-noun-region-engine):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el (lisp-el-font-lock-keywords-2)
(lisp-cl-font-lock-keywords-2):
* lisp/finder.el (finder-font-lock-keywords):
* lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-button-alist):
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-do-arg-highlight)
(describe-function-1, describe-variable):
* lisp/help-mode.el (help-xref-symbol-regexp)
(help-xref-info-regexp, help-xref-url-regexp):
* lisp/help.el (describe-mode):
* lisp/international/mule-cmds.el (help-xref-mule-regexp-template):
* lisp/wid-edit.el (widget-documentation-link-regexp):
Parse symbols quoted ‘like-this’ as well as `like-this'.
* lisp/progmodes/elisp-mode.el (emacs-lisp-mode):
Add "‘" and "’" to electric-pair-text-pairs.
(elisp--form-quoted-p): Also allow "‘" as a quoting char.
(elisp-completion-at-point, elisp--preceding-sexp):
Also treat "‘" and "’" as quoting chars.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5afd40e6727..8fe90129a5d 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -908,6 +908,12 @@ directory at point.
 *** New macros `thread-first' and `thread-last' allow threading a form
     as the first or last argument of subsequent forms.
 
+** Documentation strings now support quoting with curved single quotes
+‘like-this’ in addition to the old style with grave accent and
+apostrophe `like-this'.  The new style looks better on today's displays.
+When an old-style string is copied to a help buffer it is converted to
+the new style.
+
 +++
 ** Time-related changes: