changeset 36185:62cf166239f3

Change in quoting.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Mon, 19 Feb 2001 04:15:26 +0000
parents 100feeadb597
children e391cbe3a2fe
files man/files.texi man/frames.texi man/help.texi man/misc.texi man/mule.texi man/programs.texi man/rmail.texi man/screen.texi man/windows.texi
diffstat 9 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/files.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/files.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
 * Interlocking::        How Emacs protects against simultaneous editing
                           of one file by two users.
 * Shadowing: File Shadowing.
-                        Copying files to `shadows' automatically.
+                        Copying files to "shadows" automatically.
 * Time Stamps::         Emacs can update time stamps on saved files.
 @end menu
 
--- a/man/frames.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/frames.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 * Highlight Changes::   Using colors to show where you changed the buffer.
 * Highlight Interactively:: Tell Emacs what text to highlight.
 * Trailing Whitespace:: Showing possibly-spurious trailing whitespace.
-* Tooltips::            Showing `tooltips', AKA `ballon help' for active text.
+* Tooltips::            Showing "tooltips", AKA "ballon help" for active text.
 * Mouse Avoidance::     Moving the mouse pointer out of the way.
 * Non-Window Terminals::  Multiple frames on terminals that show only one.
 * XTerm Mouse::         Using the mouse in an XTerm terminal emulator.
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
 
 @cindex mouse wheel
 @findex mouse-wheel-install
-  Some mice have a `wheel' instead of a third button.  You can usually
+  Some mice have a ``wheel'' instead of a third button.  You can usually
 click the wheel to act as @kbd{Mouse-3}.  You can also use the wheel to
 scroll windows instead of using the scroll bar or keyboard commands.
 Use @kbd{M-x mouse-wheel-install} to set up the wheel for scrolling or put
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@
   Tooltips are small X windows displaying a help string at the current
 mouse position, typically over text---including the mode line---which
 can be activated with the mouse or other keys.  (This facility is
-sometimes known as `balloon help'.)  Help text may be available for
+sometimes known as @dfn{balloon help}.)  Help text may be available for
 menu items too.
 
 @findex tooltip-mode
--- a/man/help.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/help.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@
 (@code{describe-bindings}).
 @item C-h c @var{key}
 Print the name of the command that @var{key} runs
-(@code{describe-key-briefly}).  Here @kbd{c} stands for `character'.  For more
-extensive information on @var{key}, use @kbd{C-h k}.
+(@code{describe-key-briefly}).  Here @kbd{c} stands for ``character.''
+For more extensive information on @var{key}, use @kbd{C-h k}.
 @item C-h f @var{function} @key{RET}
 Display documentation on the Lisp function named @var{function}
 (@code{describe-function}).  Since commands are Lisp functions,
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
 so on.  With each command name appears a brief description of how to use
 the command, and what keys you can currently invoke it with.  For
 example, it would say that you can invoke @code{find-file} by typing
-@kbd{C-x C-f}.  The @kbd{a} in @kbd{C-h a} stands for `Apropos';
+@kbd{C-x C-f}.  The @kbd{a} in @kbd{C-h a} stands for ``Apropos'';
 @kbd{C-h a} runs the command @code{apropos-command}.  This command
 normally checks only commands (interactive functions); if you specify a
 prefix argument, it checks noninteractive functions as well.
@@ -544,8 +544,9 @@
 
 @cindex tooltips
 @cindex ballon help
-Often when a region of text is `active' so that you can select it with
-the mouse or a key like @kbd{RET}, it has associated help text.  Areas
-of the mode line are examples.  This help will normally be printed in
-the echo area when you move point into the active text.  In a window
-system you can display the help text as `tooltips'.  @xref{Tooltips}.
+When a region of text is ``active,'' so that you can select it with
+the mouse or a key like @kbd{RET}, it often has associated help text.
+Areas of the mode line are examples.  This help will normally be
+printed in the echo area when you move point into the active text.  In
+a window system you can display the help text as a ``tooltip.''
+@xref{Tooltips}.
--- a/man/misc.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/misc.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@
 columns by putting point at one of the columns and the mark at the other
 column.  Because this means you cannot put point or the mark at the
 beginning of the first line of the text you want to sort, this command
-uses an unusual definition of `region': all of the line point is in is
+uses an unusual definition of ``region'': all of the line point is in is
 considered part of the region, and so is all of the line the mark is in,
 as well as all the lines in between.
 
@@ -1961,9 +1961,9 @@
 are done in the global keymap, so there is no problem switching
 buffers or major modes while in EDT emulation.
 
-@item `PC' bindings
+@item ``PC'' bindings
 @findex pc-bindings-mode
-@cindex `PC' key bindings
+@cindex ``PC'' key bindings
 The command @kbd{M-x pc-bindings-mode} sets up certain key bindings
 for ``PC compatibility''---what people are often used to on PCs---as
 follows: @kbd{Delete} and its variants delete forward instead of
@@ -1977,7 +1977,7 @@
 @findex pc-selection-mode
 @cindex PC Selection minor mode
 @cindex mode, PC selection
-@cindex selection, `PC'
+@cindex selection, PC
 The command @kbd{M-x pc-selection-mode} enables a global minor mode
 that emulates the mark, copy, cut and paste commands of various other
 systems---an interface known as CUA.  It establishes the keybindings
@@ -2332,7 +2332,7 @@
 
 @findex life
 @cindex Life
-@kbd{M-x life} runs Conway's `Life' cellular automaton.
+@kbd{M-x life} runs Conway's ``Life'' cellular automaton.
 
 @findex morse-region
 @findex unmorse-region
--- a/man/mule.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/mule.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
 @item @dots{}-dos
 Assume the file uses carriage-return linefeed to separate lines, and do
 the appropriate conversion.  (This is the convention normally used on
-Microsoft systems.@footnote{It is also specified for MIME `text/*'
+Microsoft systems.@footnote{It is also specified for MIME @samp{text/*}
 bodies and in other network transport contexts.  It is different
 from the SGML reference syntax record-start/record-end format which
 Emacs doesn't support directly.})
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@
 @cindex 8-bit display
   Normally non-ISO-8859 characters (between characters 128 and 159
 inclusive) are displayed as octal escapes.  You can change this for
-non-standard `extended' versions of ISO-8859 character sets by using the
+non-standard ``extended'' versions of ISO-8859 character sets by using the
 function @code{standard-display-8bit} in the @code{disp-table} library.
 
   There are several ways you can input single-byte non-ASCII
--- a/man/programs.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/programs.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 Mode}).  The Foldout package provides folding-editor features
 (@pxref{Foldout}).
 
-  The `automatic typing' features may be useful for writing programs.
+  The ``automatic typing'' features may be useful for writing programs.
 @xref{,Autotyping,, autotype, Autotyping}.
 
 @menu
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 There is also a major mode for makefiles, called Makefile
 mode.  An alternative mode for Perl is called CPerl mode.  Modes
 are available for scripts for the common Unix shells, VMS DCL and
-MS-DOS/MS-Windows `BAT' files.  In a similar fashion to programming
+MS-DOS/MS-Windows @samp{BAT} files.  In a similar fashion to programming
 languages, modes are provided for editing various sorts of configuration
 files.
 
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@
 braces (whichever ones must balance in the language you are working with),
 and escape characters that might be used to quote those.
 
-  The other commands deal with expressions or @dfn{sexps}.  The word `sexp'
+  The other commands deal with expressions or @dfn{sexps}.  The word ``sexp''
 is derived from @dfn{s-expression}, the ancient term for an expression in
-Lisp.  But in Emacs, the notion of `sexp' is not limited to Lisp.  It
+Lisp.  But in Emacs, the notion of ``sexp'' is not limited to Lisp.  It
 refers to an expression in whatever language your program is written in.
 Each programming language has its own major mode, which customizes the
 syntax tables so that expressions in that language count as sexps.
--- a/man/rmail.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/rmail.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 @findex rmail-bury
   You can exit Rmail with @kbd{q} (@code{rmail-quit}); this expunges and
 saves the Rmail file and then switches to another buffer.  But there is
-no need to `exit' formally.  If you switch from Rmail to editing in
+no need to ``exit'' formally.  If you switch from Rmail to editing in
 other buffers, and never happen to switch back, you have exited.  (The
 Rmail command @kbd{b}, @code{rmail-bury}, does this for you.)  Just make
 sure to save the Rmail file eventually (like any other file you have
--- a/man/screen.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/screen.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@
 a hollow box, and appears in the window that would be selected if you
 give the input focus to that frame.
 
-  The term `point' comes from the character @samp{.}, which was the
+  The term ``point'' comes from the character @samp{.}, which was the
 command in TECO (the language in which the original Emacs was written)
-for accessing the value now called `point'.
+for accessing the value now called ``point.''
 
 @node Echo Area
 @section The Echo Area
--- a/man/windows.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:08:34 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/windows.texi	Mon Feb 19 04:15:26 2001 +0000
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 @findex other-window
   To select a different window, click with @kbd{Mouse-1} on its mode
 line.  With the keyboard, you can switch windows by typing @kbd{C-x o}
-(@code{other-window}).  That is an @kbd{o}, for `other', not a zero.
+(@code{other-window}).  That is an @kbd{o}, for ``other,'' not a zero.
 When there are more than two windows, this command moves through all the
 windows in a cyclic order, generally top to bottom and left to right.
 After the rightmost and bottommost window, it goes back to the one at