From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <salutis@me.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Bad quote in help
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:49:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28rubywd6.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r1838gbx.fsf@me.com>
On Wed, Feb 16 2022, Rudolf Adamkovič wrote:
> Repro steps:
>
> 1. C-h v
> 2. notmuch-search-result-format
> 3. RET
>
> See:
>
> For example:
> (setq notmuch-search-result-format
> ’(("authors" . "%-40s")
> ("subject" . "%s")))
>
> The quote ’ needs changed to ', otherwise the example does not work.
The code in question in notmuch.el is:
(setq notmuch-search-result-format
'((\"authors\" . \"%-40s\")
(\"subject\" . \"%s\")))
In this particular case it is unfortunate emacs modifies the output.
Tried to chage that to \'((\"autho...
did not help (also renamed the defcustom to make a new definition so
that the content would be evaluated when doing c-x c-e in buffer...)
In rstdoc.el we have (text-quoting-style 'grave) to not do such docstring
modifications for display, but that is not applicable in this context...
Tomi
>
> Rudy
> --
> "Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies."
> -- Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1969
>
> Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> [he/him]
> Studenohorská 25
> 84103 Bratislava
> Slovakia\r
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-16 6:40 [BUG] Bad quote in help Rudolf Adamkovič
2022-02-16 9:49 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2022-02-16 11:59 ` [PATCH] emacs: escape quote in notmuch-search-result-format docstring David Bremner
2022-02-16 21:06 ` Tomi Ollila
2022-02-17 0:32 ` David Bremner
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