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27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings

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Message #43 received at 29812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 29812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in
 Lisp strings
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 18:50:16 +0200

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:56:31 +0000
> Cc: 29812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  >  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. 

Once again, my problem is that one cannot insert “foo” inside strings
(unless in languages where strings are quoted 'like this', I guess).
So I'm saying that we probably shouldn't advertise this method for
text in strings in programming modes, because it doesn't really work
there.

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