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Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quot
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote. |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:21:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Jun 05 2017, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Elisp code needed to use
>>> (message "%s" STR) even before the change you're objecting to,
>>
>> Did it? When and why?
>
> Yes, because one can’t pass arbitrary strings to the message function and
> expect them to be displayed as-is.
Another bad argument, because we are talking about format strings, which
you cannot be replaced by "%s".
>>> (error "Can't find `%s' in %s" thing where)))
>>> => (error "Can%'t find %`%s%' in %s" thing where)))
A better way would be a new modifier to place quotes around the
argument. That's what GCC is using now. Also, contractions like don't
should be avoided anyway.
Andreas.
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- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/03
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/04
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Andreas Schwab, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/05
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Yuri Khan, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Yuri Khan, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Eli Zaretskii, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Paul Eggert, 2017/06/06
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Andreas Schwab, 2017/06/07
- RE: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Drew Adams, 2017/06/07
- Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote., Alan Mackenzie, 2017/06/07