** C-x 8 now has shorthands for these chars: ‐ ‑ ‒ – — ― ‘ ’ “ ” † ‡ • ′ ″
€ № ← → ↔ − ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥. As before, you can type C-x 8 C-h to list shorthands.
-** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”.
+** New minor mode electric-quote-mode for quoting ‘like this’ and “like this”
+as you type.
** New minor mode global-eldoc-mode is enabled by default.
denied" instead of "permission denied". The old behavior was problematic
in languages like German where downcasing rules depend on grammar.
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+** New variable ‘text-quoting-style’ to control how Emacs translates quotes.
+Set it to ‘curve’ for curved single quotes ‘like this’, to ‘straight’
+for straight apostrophes 'like this', and to ‘grave’ for grave accent
+and apostrophe `like this'. The default value nil acts like ‘curve’
+if curved single quotes are displayable, and like ‘grave’ otherwise.
+Quotes in info files are not translated.
+
+++
** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
-That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
+That is, it converts documentation strings’ quoting style as per the
value of ‘text-quoting-style’. Doc strings in source code can use
either curved quotes or grave accent and apostrophe. As before,
isolated apostrophes and characters preceded by \= are output as-is.