Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#index-left-quote > > The actual change to the document was made even earlier than I > remembered: > > 2011-12-31 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > > * standards.texi (Quote Characters): change to recommending > undirected quotes, '...' or "...".
This is about the quote character as an output, not as used in Emacs change logs. >>> and EMACS is slowly following suit. >> >> Where do you see that Emacs is slowly following suit? > > There was a lengthy discussion around the latest version of makeinfo > producing the new quoting style by default just recently and it has > flared up before. My takeaway from that was that EMACS would go with > that change in coding style over time. No, the convention is still to use ` for variables in change logs. This is the same as using `variable' in Emacs lisp buffers (see line 343 of current trunk in lisp-mode.el, where `font-lock-constant-face' is used for highlighting variables.) -- Bastien
