From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote. Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:50:17 +0000 Message-ID: <20170607165017.GA2430@acm.fritz.box> References: <20170531212452.GA3789@acm.fritz.box> <07bf5f9d-e8cd-a4d9-1843-b488bfe0b92c@cs.ucla.edu> <20170602210209.GA3570@acm.fritz.box> <11c0adfb-7fdd-8d28-1a47-869e3e7043ea@cs.ucla.edu> <20170603205331.GA2130@acm.fritz.box> <20170605162737.GA30946@acm.fritz.box> <20170605203753.GB30946@acm.fritz.box> <77995ce8-8ce5-d29b-9668-4ad0a5616be8@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496854864 6850 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2017 17:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 17:01:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Cc: Paul Eggert , 23425@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 07 19:01:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeKK-0001V0-I3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:01:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeKP-0004gZ-G9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeBh-00042L-Om for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeBe-0004uV-IC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:52:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeBe-0004uP-ES for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeBe-0008Sn-7F for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Alan Mackenzie Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23425 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23425-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23425.149685428432476 (code B ref 23425); Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23425) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jun 2017 16:51:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33468 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeB2-0008Rk-DF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:51:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ocolin.muc.de ([193.149.48.4]:37605 helo=mail.muc.de) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dIeB0-0008Rc-TH for 23425@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 68011 invoked by uid 3782); 7 Jun 2017 16:51:20 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p548C713C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.140.113.60]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:51:19 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2468 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jun 2017 16:50:17 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77995ce8-8ce5-d29b-9668-4ad0a5616be8@gmail.com> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:133374 gmane.emacs.devel:215504 Archived-At: Hello, Clément. On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 17:05:43 -0400, Clément Pit-Claudel wrote: > On 2017-06-05 16:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > How do you propose to prevent such puzzlement and anger in the > > future, if not by %` and %'? > Note that this introduces a backwards compatibility issue, if not done carefully: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Not enough arguments for format string") > message("%`woops%'") > eval((message "%`woops%'") nil) I think it would be done carefully! Clearly, %` and %' would be format elements for which the count of necessary arguments would not be incremented. Or, more concisely, we wouldn't count them. [ .... ] > Clément. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).