Subject: Re: bug#60454: 30.0.50; `format-message' does not allow displaying "`" and "'" verbatim

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:06:36 +0000

Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Would it be possible to introduce some kind of escape mechanism in 
>> `format-message' to produce literal "'" and "`" when needed?
>>
>
> Just let-bind text-quoting-style:
>
> (let ((text-quoting-style 'grave))
>    (format-message "foo `bar' baz"))

This won't work when I sometimes actually want the replacement to
happen:

(format-message "This is variable `foo', and the code 'bar")

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