Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Would someone like to summarize the various alternatives now
> being considered for quotation in format strings?

Perhaps best illustrated with examples.

Here's what's implemented in master now (either works):

  (format "‘add-to-list’ can't use var ‘%s’; use ‘push’ or ‘cl-pushnew’" sym)

  (format "%q can't use var %qs; use %qs or %qs" "add-to-list" sym "push" 
"cl-pushnew")

Digraphs were proposed, but not implemented:

  (format "%<add-to-list%> can't use var %<%s%>; use %<push%> or 
%<cl-pushnew%>" sym)

There are lots of other possibilities of course, but these have been the main 
ones considered so far.