From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 20:44:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20150602204423.GA2619@acm.fritz.box> References: <20150601104935.19764.qmail@mail.muc.de> <556C81C4.3010107@cs.ucla.edu> <20150601171723.GB16298@acm.fritz.box> <556CA97C.8070807@cs.ucla.edu> <20150602115600.GA3468@acm.fritz.box> <556DCE36.9070505@cs.ucla.edu> <20150602170724.GA2567@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433277874 19969 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2015 20:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 20:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20707@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 02 22:44:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2j-0001kU-2g for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:44:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2i-0003G6-GM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2c-0003FU-9W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2Y-00047a-WF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2Y-00047W-TR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2Y-000432-Fg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:44:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20707 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 20707-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20707.143327784115544 (code B ref 20707); Tue, 02 Jun 2015 20:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20707) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Jun 2015 20:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37975 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2W-00042e-OF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:44:01 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:39174 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yzt2T-00042P-I8 for 20707@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:43:58 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 33080 invoked by uid 3782); 2 Jun 2015 20:43:55 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E9755.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.151.85]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7028 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jun 2015 20:44:23 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150602170724.GA2567@acm.fritz.box> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103515 Archived-At: Hello again, Paul. On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 05:07:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > As I've suggested before, why don't you make --with-curly-quotes a > configuration option? All you would need (at least, in the C files) would be a macro declaration like this: #ifdef WITH_CURLY_QUOTES #define Q(s) "?" #s "?" #else #define Q(s) "`" #s "'" #endif , and a typical use of Q would look like this: error ("Buffer name " Q(%s) " is in use", SDATA (name)); . The preprocessor produces either this: error ("Buffer name " "`" "%s" "'" " is in use", SDATA (name)); , or this error ("Buffer name " "?" "%s" "?" " is in use", SDATA (name)); , depending on whether WITH_CURLY_QUOTES is defined. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).