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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From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 12:52:44 +0200

Alan Mackenzie writes:
> I suggest that you now apologise for what you did back in August 2015,
> promising never to do the same thing again.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2016-05/msg00324.html

What more do you want?

I'm not happy with that change either, but Paul has worked on Emacs for
25 years, with almost 5000 commits on record. This does not make him
infallible, but calling him a 'rogue' is just unacceptable.

-David
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