From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:56:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQn8wxaqbues8QdvjTXKs+n3RcVka6T01=DEV1icYE=uQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83608merfw.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 31. Dez. 2017 um 18:30 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:03:14 +0000
> > Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I mean some way of inserting “foo” inside a string. Is that possible
> > somehow?
> >
> > Sure, either by inserting the characters in some other way, or by using
> `` and '' (double apostrophe).
>
> Then maybe we should just give up on electric-quote-replace-double
> inside strings, and use double apostrophes instead?
>
Why? It works as designed and expected – that is, a double quote will
terminate the string. That is what users want most of the time. Also, there
are many languages where strings aren't double-quoted, such as Python.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-22 13:40 bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 22:07 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 16:16 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 16:49 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 17:03 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 12:56 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2018-01-07 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 17:19 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:51 ` [PATCH] Ignore escape characters for context-sensitive quotes (Bug#29812) Philipp Stephani
2018-01-07 12:54 ` bug#29812: " Philipp Stephani
2017-12-31 16:51 ` Philipp Stephani
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