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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23425@debbugs.gnu.org, deng@randomsample.de
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:37:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shj6614w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170611100347.GA4280@acm.fritz.box> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:03:47 +0000)

> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 10:03:47 +0000
> Cc: deng@randomsample.de, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23425@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > IME, it [`message'] works quite well all of the time.
> 
> It does not work at all for outputting ` and '.  Ugly workarounds are
> required for that.

We will have to disagree on the ugliness part.  Modulo that, it's
quite possible to output these two characters.

> > Where it has some deficiencies, I'm sure we will with time improve it
> > so it works even better.  That's my experience in Emacs for many years.
> 
> If it doesn't get fixed now, it will never be fixed.

It will, if we the motion to do that ever gets more support, or if we
find some grave problems we are not aware today.

> > And with that, I think it's high time to end this discussion.
> 
> How about fixing this bug first?

I'm sorry, but I don't see anything that needs to be fixed at this
time.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-11 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-02 14:55 bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-02 16:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-02 16:41   ` Drew Adams
2016-05-02 17:53 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-02 19:10   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 15:17     ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-03 16:36       ` Drew Adams
2016-05-03 16:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 15:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 16:27       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 16:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-03 20:03           ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-03 20:49             ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 15:32             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 16:48               ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 17:03                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 17:37                   ` Josh
2016-05-04 19:05                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 18:04                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 18:39                     ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 18:57                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 19:02                         ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 21:34                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 21:50                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-04 23:49                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-05 15:51                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-10 14:41                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-31  1:07                             ` Glenn Morris
2017-05-31  1:42                               ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-31 21:24                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-05-31 23:26                                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-02 21:02                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-02 21:15                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-03 21:10                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                         ` <20170603211010.GD2130@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-03 21:32                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-02 21:47                                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-03  0:13                                         ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:01                                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-03 20:53                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                         ` <20170603205331.GA2130@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-04 21:01                                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-05 16:27                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                             ` <20170605162737.GA30946@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-05 18:19                                               ` Paul Eggert
     [not found]                                               ` <ac90b979-6a37-29c4-03b3-6322ac2cc11a@cs.ucla.edu>
2017-06-05 18:31                                                 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-05 20:37                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]                                                 ` <20170605203753.GB30946@acm.fritz.box>
2017-06-05 21:05                                                   ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 16:50                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:29                                                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06  0:14                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-06  8:21                                                     ` Andreas Schwab
     [not found]                                                     ` <mvmtw3tsf05.fsf@suse.de>
2017-06-06 12:24                                                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
     [not found]                                                       ` <fa92f34f-982b-e9a5-be21-188e694e38d9@gmail.com>
2017-06-06 13:55                                                         ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]                                                         ` <CAP_d_8X7V_G4g7emn_EPd_YYPKu2HfnDE+Q3FOPMGXpB4sEYSw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-06 18:21                                                           ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 18:59                                                             ` Yuri Khan
     [not found]                                                             ` <CAP_d_8X5OBsQQ=0+dj-qYFV3yEC4WZVMpyRw1KyiM0tvJUNFMw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-06-06 19:39                                                               ` Clément Pit-Claudel
     [not found]                                                               ` <10515b89-1c60-227e-ff3d-3127f59c0daf@gmail.com>
2017-06-07  4:57                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 23:09                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-07  7:44                                                         ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-07 18:17                                                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08  8:04                                                             ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-07 13:27                                                         ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 19:13                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:27                                                       ` Clément Pit-Claudel
     [not found]                                                       ` <966db090-4aa1-231c-ef5a-370ece8905d1@gmail.com>
2017-06-07 19:33                                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 19:51                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 20:33                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 23:28                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-08 17:34                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-08 20:17                                                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-09 19:41                                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-09 20:17                                                               ` Drew Adams
2017-06-09 20:38                                                                 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-09 21:05                                                                   ` Drew Adams
2017-06-09 21:44                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-09 22:51                                                                 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-10  0:20                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-10 10:01                                                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-10 10:52                                                                       ` David Engster
2017-06-10 11:48                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-10 13:01                                                                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-10 13:39                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-11 10:03                                                                             ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-11 14:37                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-06-10 15:28                                                                           ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-01 16:56                                   ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:07                                     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-04 18:46                     ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 20:23                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-05-04 21:15                         ` John Wiegley
2016-05-04 22:19                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-05  7:12                             ` Andreas Schwab
2016-05-05 17:05                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05  8:06                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-05-05 17:06                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-05 23:46                         ` John Wiegley
2016-05-06  8:54                         ` Nicolas Petton
2016-05-04 19:08                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-04 21:49               ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-09 20:31 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-10  7:08   ` Eli Zaretskii

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