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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Kit O'Connell" <vulpine@pobox.com>
Cc: 2967@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2967: smart quotes in .emacs
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:23:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdp8wxos.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498421570904120553o69ee009dj544e0866b434b8a3@mail.gmail.com> (Kit O'Connell's message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:53:37 -0500")

> I was troubleshooting a friend's .emacs issues with the help of some
> internet assistance.  When I copy/pasted people's suggested .emacs
> entries, some smart quotes got into the file, causing error messages.

Please explain what you mean by "smart quotes" and describe the error
messages you got (and when you got them, and if they seemed to have any
actual effect).


        Stefan







  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-13 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-12 12:53 bug#2967: smart quotes in .emacs Kit O'Connell
2009-04-13 12:23 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-08-10 19:59   ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-07  3:46     ` npostavs
2017-06-07  5:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-17  0:49         ` npostavs
2017-07-22  9:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-22 14:41             ` npostavs

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