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bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:42:34 -0800 (PST) |
> In the new NEWS in the recent pretest, at L1381 we have:
>
> ** To avoid confusion caused by "smart quotes", the reader no longer
> accepts Lisp symbols which begin with the following quotation
> characters: `'"" , unless they are escaped with backslash.
> ^^^^
>
> , which leaves it unclear whether it's the "smart quotes" or the Lisp
> symbols which need escaping.
>
> I suggest replacing "they" with either "these quotes" or "these symbols"
> depending on the desired meaning.
Even if that ambiguity gets resolved, I have no idea what
the text means. What does it mean for the Lisp reader to
"accept a Lisp symbol"?
Please describe exactly what the reader does when it reads
one of those characters followed by Lisp-symbol syntax, in
both cases: char escaped and char not escaped.
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/01/22
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Noam Postavsky, 2018/01/22
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Drew Adams, 2018/01/22
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Noam Postavsky, 2018/01/22
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Drew Adams, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Drew Adams, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Noam Postavsky, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Drew Adams, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Noam Postavsky, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Drew Adams, 2018/01/23
- bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91, Noam Postavsky, 2018/01/23