Eli Zaretskii schrieb am So., 7. Jan. 2018 um 17:50 Uhr: > > From: Philipp Stephani > > Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:56:31 +0000 > > Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org > > > > > 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). > > > > Then maybe we should just give up on electric-quote-replace-double > > inside strings, and use double apostrophes instead? > > > > Why? It works as designed and expected – that is, a double quote will > terminate the string. That is what users > > want most of the time. Also, there are many languages where strings > aren't double-quoted, such as Python. > > Once again, my problem is that one cannot insert “foo” inside strings > (unless in languages where strings are quoted 'like this', I guess). > So I'm saying that we probably shouldn't advertise this method for > text in strings in programming modes, because it doesn't really work > there. > Feel free to clarify the NEWS entry. (You mentioned strings there in commit e92f5537a8222187525ef5066dba051211db5290.)