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bug#24786: 25.1; Misleading documentation/news for text-quoting-style
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24786: 25.1; Misleading documentation/news for text-quoting-style |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:13:42 +0300 |
> From: Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:33:12 +0200
>
> I've just fixed a complex Emacs Lisp program using `error' in batch mode
> where messages of the "Exception: 'foo'" kind were turned into
> "Exception: ‘foo’", leading to a crash in the test rig written in as it
> did not expect non-ASCII output. I find this inacceptable behavior.
> Why should printing one thing print something entirely different from
> what has been specified?
>
> I've learned that there is a `text-quoting-style' variable that controls
> this behavior, however both its docstring and the corresponding news
> entry suggest that there is no way to disable the post-processing. On
> top of that they don't mention that the simplest way to make things look
> like they previously did is to set it to `grave`. Is there any reason
> this is not documented? More importantly, if that is the truth, why is
> there no flag to disable that post-processing?
Did you look at the state of affairs on the emacs-25 branch? If not,
please do: I think at least some of these problems were fixed there.
If they are still not fixed, or you cannot figure out how to fix them,
please tell the details: where did you read or saw behavior that
disallows turning off the conversion of quotes. FWIW, I see this in
the doc string:
‘grave’ means quote with grave accent and apostrophe `like this'.
which seems to be what you want, no?