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RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27? |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Feb 2018 07:54:14 -0800 (PST) |
> We're not talking about typos here. The curly quotes aren't present on
> typical keyboard layouts (though I'm informed they are present on
> Finnish keyboards), so nobody who isn't Finnish will type one of these
> characters by accident. We're talking about Emacs itself corrupting
> ASCII quotes into curly quotes in a `message' call because of the
> default setting of `text-quoting-style', and so on.
>
> Because of this, the error message should concentrate on that quote, not
> the strange symbol, which Emacs itself created.
Not necessarily. Although I share your concern about
Emacs promulgating curly quotes, there is a real usage
problem akin to "typos": users copying text, including
Lisp code, from a web page or elsewhere, and pasting
it into Emacs as code to be evaluated at some point.
If the source of the copy has already changed simple
apostrophe to a curly quote (as one example) then that's
what gets passed to Emacs. The person copy+pasting
may well have no clue about just which characters are
being copied.
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, (continued)
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/03
- RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Drew Adams, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Alan Third, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/04
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/02/04
- RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/04
- RE: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Drew Adams, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Noam Postavsky, 2018/02/03
- Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?, Richard Stallman, 2018/02/04
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- RE: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Drew Adams, 2018/02/05
- Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list?, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/02/05
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