From: "Kit O'Connell" <vulpine@pobox.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#2967: smart quotes in .emacs
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:53:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <498421570904120553o69ee009dj544e0866b434b8a3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
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.
You can see the whole process of how this happened here:
http://dreamcafe.com/words/2009/04/11/help-us-dr-internet-emacs-edition/#comment-5222
I think it would be good if emacs looked for smart quotes in .emacs
files and gave a warning or notice if it detected them. This would
help troubleshooting.
Kit
next reply other threads:[~2009-04-12 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-12 12:53 Kit O'Connell [this message]
2009-04-13 12:23 ` bug#2967: smart quotes in .emacs Stefan Monnier
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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