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master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:26:12 -0700

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On 05/31/2017 02:24 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> This bug has not been fixed.

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your earlier comments. I reopened the bug.

> The only documentation for this feature is obscure and hidden.  There
> is nothing in `message''s doc string which explicitly states likely
> unwanted replacement of characters takes place; just a puzzling
> "exception proves the rule" paragraph.
I installed the attached patch into master, which I hope makes that doc 
string sufficiently clear. I'd rather not change the Emacs default 
behavior, though, for reasons already discussed.

[0001-src-editfns.c-Fmessage-Improve-doc-string-Bug-23425-.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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