From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:03:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkSBELxy+k_MepOHCEkJTf2DfrSrYJtce1f6aqNojmwMvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837et2esu8.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 31. Dez. 2017 um 18:00 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:49:31 +0000
> > Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > In C, "\"foo\"" produces ASCII quotes.
> >
> > Did you enable electric-quote-string?
>
> Should I?
>
Yes, it's nil by default.
>
> > Well, can you give an example where it does work in strings? Maybe
> > I'm missing something, because it looked to me as if it never works in
> > that case.
> >
> > Depends on what you mean with "work".
>
> 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).
>
> > A bare " should always close the string; after a \ it currently inserts
> > an opening quote because it only looks back one character.
>
> Which is a bug, isn't it?
>
Maybe. As said, it's a heuristic, and there's no unambiguous "correct"
behavior. But the patch I've sent modifies the behavior so that it ignores
the escape character.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 13:40 bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 22:07 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 16:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 16:49 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 17:03 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-12-31 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 12:56 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-01-07 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 17:19 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:51 ` bug#29812: [PATCH] Ignore escape characters for context-sensitive quotes (Bug#29812) Philipp Stephani
[not found] ` <20171231165104.68136-1-phst@google.com>
2018-01-07 12:54 ` Philipp Stephani
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