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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Cc: acm <at> muc.de, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly
 quote.
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:48:17 +0300
> From: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 12:52:44 +0200
> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 23425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.

Agreed.  We all make mistakes, and should be tolerable to those made
in good faith by others.




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