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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:32:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oakbek0m.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5584381B.1080506@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:41:15 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> By "backward compatible", I assume you mean that code using the new `
> flag would not be portable to older Emacs.  There shouldn't be any
> compatibility problem in the usual sense, as the change would be a
> pure extension to 'format', i.e, it wouldn't affect Tramp's behavior
> if we left Tramp alone.

For sure. However, Tramp uses the same wording as the original functions
it provides handlers for. As a consequence, a user would see the message
"Rename ‘old’ to ‘new’" for local files, and "Rename `old' to `new'" for
remote files. This looks inconsistent.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-18 21:25 Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-19  8:13 ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-19  9:17   ` Artur Malabarba
2015-06-20  0:06     ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-19 10:44   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-20  5:35     ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-19 10:46   ` Michael Albinus
2015-06-19 15:21     ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-19 15:41     ` Paul Eggert
2015-06-19 16:32       ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2015-06-20  0:33   ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-20  0:33 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-20  1:04   ` Paul Eggert

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