From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote. Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:10:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20170603211010.GD2130@acm.fritz.box> References: <4019c1e5-36b4-745f-b299-16b074bff81e@cs.ucla.edu> <83zis4h59w.fsf@gnu.org> <51a2ae75-71f7-10f6-ae2a-7c830bdf0a30@cs.ucla.edu> <17c1c00d-a275-5e61-0c47-6872a64a9347@cs.ucla.edu> <20170531212452.GA3789@acm.fritz.box> <07bf5f9d-e8cd-a4d9-1843-b488bfe0b92c@cs.ucla.edu> <20170602210209.GA3570@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496524284 28573 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 21:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:11:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Cc: Paul Eggert , 23425@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 23:11:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGKM-000727-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:11:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGKR-0000vw-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGKL-0000ui-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGKG-0002eV-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:11:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ocolin.muc.de ([193.149.48.4]:18450 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGKG-0002eR-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:11:12 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 41104 invoked by uid 3782); 3 Jun 2017 21:11:11 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p4FC46308.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.196.99.8]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:11:10 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 2313 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Jun 2017 21:10:10 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 193.149.48.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215436 Archived-At: [ Posted to emacs-devel@gnu.org, Reply-To: set there, too. ] Hello, Dmitry. On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 00:15:49 +0300, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > On 6/3/17 12:02 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I propose restoring the default to what it was in Emacs 24. For > > simplicity's sake, only % should be special, and for translating quotes > > we could introduce %' and %`, such that quote translation happens only > > when a %' or %` is present. > I recall proposing something to that effect back in one of the original > discussions. E.g. GCC does that with its message function. Can you see any disadvantage with such a change? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).