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

[Paul Eggert]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> Regarding automatic translation in `format': do you anticipate someone,
> somewhere, having a file with "‘add-to-list’" in its name

Emacs diagnostics that use quotes have never worked well when they quote a file 
name or any other string that contains quotes or newlines.  This is true 
regardless of whether diagnostics quote 'like this', "like this", `like this', 
‘like this’, or “like this”, like this:, etc.  It would be helpful to devise and 
implement a syntax that would let Emacs quote arbitrary strings consistently and 
reliably, presumably by using backslash escapes for troublesome characters. 
Perhaps %q could do that, which would be an argument for preferring %q when 
quoting arbitrary strings in diagnostics.