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25.1; electric-quote-local-mode has no effect in message mode

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Message #8 received at 25333 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Christophe Troestler <Christophe.Troestler <at> umons.ac.be>
Cc: 25333 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 25.1; electric-quote-local-mode has no effect in message mode
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 05:30:36 -0700

> When turning electric-quote-local-mode on in message-mode, one expects ` 
> to be turned to ‘ and the like.  However, it does nothing outside 
> quotations (lines starting with ‘>’ and the like).  It seems to be 
> because ‘comment-use-syntax’ is left as ‘undecided’.  Shouldn’t it set 
> to ‘nil‘ (for some parts only if needed)?

Sorry, I cannot reproduce the problem in the current Emacs master. Quite 
possibly I am not understanding the scenario well enough. (Or possibly the bug 
has been fixed since you reported it.) Could you please send a self-contained 
recipe for reproducing the problem? Thanks.

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