For the following function describe-function creates a hyperlink for the occurence of kill-ring in left and right single quotes, whereas helpful-function does not:
(defun f ()
"Docstring mentioning variable ‘kill-ring’ with left and
right single quotes, instead of mentioning `kill-ring' with grave
accent and apostrophe."
nil)
The Emacs Lisp manual states:
Some previous versions of this section recommended using the non-ASCII single quotation marks directly in doc strings, but this is now discouraged, since that leads to broken help string displays on terminals that don’t support displaying those characters.
So I suppose that using left and right single quotes instead of grave accent and apostrophe in general is supported by Emacs, although discouraged nowadays. Ideally helpful would support that, too.
For the following function
describe-functioncreates a hyperlink for the occurence ofkill-ringin left and right single quotes, whereashelpful-functiondoes not:The Emacs Lisp manual states:
So I suppose that using left and right single quotes instead of grave accent and apostrophe in general is supported by Emacs, although discouraged nowadays. Ideally helpful would support that, too.