GNU bug report logs - #23425
master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 15:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #162 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:10:10 +0000

[ Posted to emacs-devel <at> gnu.org, Reply-To: set there, too. ]

Hello, Dmitry.

On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 00:15:49 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 6/3/17 12:02 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > I propose restoring the default to what it was in Emacs 24.  For
> > simplicity's sake, only % should be special, and for translating quotes
> > we could introduce %' and %`, such that quote translation happens only
> > when a %' or %` is present.

> I recall proposing something to that effect back in one of the original 
> discussions. E.g. GCC does that with its message function.

Can you see any disadvantage with such a change?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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