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

[Paul Eggert]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Doesn't (format "Expand `%s'? " string) use the "preferred quoting style"?

No, as that would break usages such as (format "\\`%s\\'" (car e)).  This sort 
of thing is reasonably common, so it'd be a compatibility problem to change 
‘format’ to replace accent-grave.

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> This user's preference is to be able to type quote marks in Emacs source
> files directly without mincing workarounds, and to be able to search for
> them likewise.

You can continue to type quote marks as before, and Emacs will behave as it 
always has.  The only change here is if that if you want quotes in diagnostics 
to come out in the user's preferred style, a "mincing workaround" of some sort 
is needed.

By the way, it's easy to search for quote marks in either style: just type C-s ` 
or C-s '.  And it's easy to type curved quote marks by using Electric Quote 
mode.  These are both new features.  If you don't want to use these new 
features, that's fine too.