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

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:56:31 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> schrieb am So., 31. Dez. 2017 um 18:30 Uhr:

> > From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:03:14 +0000
> > Cc: [email-masked]
> >
> >  I mean some way of inserting “foo” inside a string.  Is that possible
> >  somehow?
> >
> > Sure, either by inserting the characters in some other way, or by using
> `` and '' (double apostrophe).
>
> Then maybe we should just give up on electric-quote-replace-double
> inside strings, and use double apostrophes instead?
>

Why? It works as designed and expected – that is, a double quote will
terminate the string. That is what users want most of the time. Also, there
are many languages where strings aren't double-quoted, such as Python.