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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Simplifying text-quoting-style a bit
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 17:11:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f446e0b7-2371-11f8-3aae-d722525ab04a@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)

In <http://bugs.gnu.org/23425#95> I propose what I hope is a minor 
change to how Emacs formats messages containing quotes. In draft Emacs 
25, if the variable text-quoting-style has the value ‘grave’ then a call 
like (message "‘foo’") with curved quotes outputs a string like "`foo'" 
with grave quotes. This translation from curved to grave style is a 
relic of a now-abandoned quoting design, is not used within Emacs and is 
unlikely to be used elsewhere, and means that grave quoting does not 
output text as-is as one might expect. My proposal is to turn this 
feature off, so that grave quoting outputs text as-is (assuming the text 
does not contain %).

I am mentioning this on emacs-devel to give a heads-up to any developers 
who might be affected by this proposal.




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