Subject: Re: bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:49:31 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> schrieb am So., 31. Dez. 2017 um 17:38 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:16:02 +0000
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> >  AFAIK, electric-quote-replace-double is supposed to work in comments
> >  and strings in buffers under programming language modes, not only in
> >  text modes.  And it works correctly for me in C modes and also in Lisp
> >  comments, so why not in Lisp strings?
> >
> > Does it work as expected for you in C strings? I see the same behavior
> in C strings as in Lisp.
>
> In C, "\"foo\"" produces ASCII quotes.
>

Did you enable electric-quote-string?

>
> >  Anyway, if this feature is not supposed to work reliably in
> >  programming language strings, perhaps we shouldn't try?  Having it
> >  sometimes work and sometimes not is IMO confusing.
> >
> > It should work in comments and strings, yes. However, given that the
> behavior is heuristic in all cases it's hard
> > to define what the correct behavior should be.
>
> Well, can you give an example where it does work in strings?  Maybe
> I'm missing something, because it looked to me as if it never works in
> that case.
>

Depends on what you mean with "work". A bare " should always close the
string; after a \ it currently inserts an opening quote because it only
looks back one character.