From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 23425@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 08:06:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160505080606.GA1950@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d1p1irtp.fsf@newartisans.com>
Hello, John.
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:46:58AM -0700, John Wiegley wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I appreciate the passion on this issue; I had a feeling this would come up,
> and I think the reaction is going to be far more widespread than some expect.
> As maintainer, I'll go on record by saying that I very much dislike the new
> curly quotes logic. After the reactions I've read here, I'm convinced again
> that a customization option needs to exist in 25.1, so we can easily recommend
> it to people who react as Alan has done.
:-)
[ .... ]
> At this point, I cannot undo this feature [translation of single quotes
> in help messages and message format strings], since that would
> destabilize 25.1. However, we must have an option to conveniently
> disable it before the release happens. Of that I am now certain. Would
> someone be willing to craft a patch, please?
I committed 32f5bf0c29bbad6524f71079e4380b8156289551 to master last night
just before I read your post. It adds the value `leave' (as in "leave
alone and don't touch") to the set valid in `text-quoting-style'. This
might be what you're looking for, or serve as the basis for it.
`text-quoting-style' so far remains a mere Lisp variable, not a
customisable option.
> Lastly, to play devil's advocate: I also recognize, after having written this,
> that I'm something of an "old fogey" in Emacs terms, with a special place for
> ASCII in my heart. It's quite possible that the new-and-coming generation is
> very fond of Unicode, and they will all love this feature, since it gives
> Emacs a more modern "feel". For their sake, I'm prepared to wait for the
> world's judgment before deciding that this feature is entirely terrible.
We old fogies need our tools just as much as the new generations do.
[ .... ]
> --
> John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
> http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Thread overview: 123+ 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
2017-06-03 21:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-03 21:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-03 21:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-02 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-03 0:13 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-03 21:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-03 20:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-04 21:01 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-05 16:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-05 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-05 18:19 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-05 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-05 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-05 20:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-05 20:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-05 21:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 16:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 19:29 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 0:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-06-06 8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-06 12:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 12:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 13:55 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-06 18:21 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 18:59 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-06 18:59 ` Yuri Khan
2017-06-06 19:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-06 19:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-07 4:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-06 13:55 ` Yuri Khan
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 13:27 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-06 8:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-06-07 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 19:27 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-06-07 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 19:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-07 19:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 19:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 20:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 20:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 20:56 ` Drew Adams
2017-06-07 22:05 ` `message' with quotes [was: bug#23425: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote] Drew Adams
2017-06-08 17:49 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-07 23:28 ` bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote 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
2017-06-10 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-06-05 16:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-03 20:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-06-01 16:56 ` Glenn Morris
2017-06-03 21:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
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 [this message]
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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