* Simplifying text-quoting-style a bit
@ 2016-05-05 0:11 Paul Eggert
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2016-05-05 0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs development discussions
In <http://bugs.gnu.org/23425#95> I propose what I hope is a minor
change to how Emacs formats messages containing quotes. In draft Emacs
25, if the variable text-quoting-style has the value ‘grave’ then a call
like (message "‘foo’") with curved quotes outputs a string like "`foo'"
with grave quotes. This translation from curved to grave style is a
relic of a now-abandoned quoting design, is not used within Emacs and is
unlikely to be used elsewhere, and means that grave quoting does not
output text as-is as one might expect. My proposal is to turn this
feature off, so that grave quoting outputs text as-is (assuming the text
does not contain %).
I am mentioning this on emacs-devel to give a heads-up to any developers
who might be affected by this proposal.
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