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, 31 Dec 2017 16:49:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkT7HM-62h_konCAC1fbArGyggiCjVj31k14e5VT_m+xwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a7xyetud.fsf@gnu.org>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 31. Dez. 2017 um 17:38 Uhr:
> > From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 16:16:02 +0000
> > Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Does it work as expected for you in C strings? I see the same behavior
> in C strings as in Lisp.
>
> In C, "\"foo\"" produces ASCII quotes.
>
Did you enable electric-quote-string?
>
> > 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.
> >
> > It should work in comments and strings, yes. However, given that the
> behavior is heuristic in all cases it's hard
> > to define what the correct behavior should be.
>
> Well, can you give an example where it does work in strings? Maybe
> I'm missing something, because it looked to me as if it never works in
> that case.
>
Depends on what you mean with "work". A bare " should always close the
string; after a \ it currently inserts an opening quote because it only
looks back one character.
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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 [this message]
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
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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