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

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Message #183 received at 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:05:43 -0400

On 2017-06-05 16:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>  How do you propose to prevent such puzzlement and anger in the
> future, if not by %` and %'?

Note that this introduces a backwards compatibility issue, if not done carefully:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Not enough arguments for format string")
    message("%`woops%'")
    eval((message "%`woops%'") nil)

Did something similar happen with \=' ?

Clément.

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