From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:51:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83efnaew0p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837etenanf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514735424 27414 195.159.176.226 (31 Dec 2017 15:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:50:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 31 16:50:19 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1eVfsL-0006We-UX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:50:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVfuK-0002vk-QN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47206) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVfuC-0002vY-A2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVfu7-0002i5-FO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:50206) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVfu7-0002hl-Ar for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVfu6-0000ja-Fh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:52:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29812 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29812-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29812.15147354822776 (code B ref 29812); Sun, 31 Dec 2017 15:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29812) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2017 15:51:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58887 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVftS-0000ii-Ju for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55874) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eVftQ-0000iV-Vb for 29812@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVftI-0000nb-Ly for 29812@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eVftI-0000nQ-Id; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2513 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eVftI-0005T2-3g; Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:51:12 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:07:16 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141644 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:07:16 +0000 > Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org > > emacs -Q > M-x electric-quote-mode RET > M-x set-variable RET electric-quote-replace-double RET t RET > > Type: > > "foo \"foo\"" > > You get this in the buffer: > > "foo \”foo\”" > > I expected "foo \“foo\”" instead. > > I think it's not completely clear what to expect here. After all, electric quote is for human-language text, which > normally doesn't contain backslashes. AFAIK, electric-quote-replace-double is supposed to work in comments and strings in buffers under programming language modes, not only in text modes. And it works correctly for me in C modes and also in Lisp comments, so why not in Lisp strings? > At least in the context of Emacs Lisp strings, I'd expect "foo \"foo\"" here, i.e., ASCII quotes. The non-ASCII > quotes don't need to be escaped, so presumably escaping means that the user intended to type an ASCII > quote. Typing just a quote in a Lisp string terminates the string, so I wouldn't expect that to produce curved quotes. And a backslash just quotes the next character, so there's nothing wrong with having it before curved quotes. Anyway, if this feature is not supposed to work reliably in programming language strings, perhaps we shouldn't try? Having it sometimes work and sometimes not is IMO confusing.