New q flag for ‘format’

* doc/lispref/processes.texi (Sentinels):
Don't hardwire grave quoting style in example.
* doc/lispref/strings.texi (Formatting Strings):
* etc/NEWS:
Document new q flag.
* src/editfns.c (Fformat): Implement it.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ec3d25c4870..6058f221464 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -912,12 +912,17 @@ create a string, and may return its first argument if the argument
 already has the correct value.
 
 +++
+** New ‘format’ flag ‘q’
+The new ‘q’ flag causes ‘format’ to quote the output representation as
+per the value of ‘text quoting-style’.  E.g., (format "%qs failed"
+"foo") might return "‘foo’ failed".
+
++++
 ** substitute-command-keys now replaces quotes.
 That is, it converts documentation strings' quoting style as per the
-value of ‘text-quoting-style’ as described above.  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.
+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.
 
 +++
 ** The character classes [:alpha:] and [:alnum:] in regular expressions