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bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp str
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#29812: 27.0.50; electric-quote-replace-double misbehaves in Lisp strings |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 18:50:16 +0200 |
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2018 12:56:31 +0000
> Cc: 29812@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I mean some way of inserting “foo” inside a string. Is that possible
> > somehow?
> >
> > Sure, either by inserting the characters in some other way, or by using ``
> and '' (double apostrophe).
>
> Then maybe we should just give up on electric-quote-replace-double
> inside strings, and use double apostrophes instead?
>
> Why? It works as designed and expected – that is, a double quote will
> terminate the string. That is what users
> want most of the time. Also, there are many languages where strings aren't
> double-quoted, such as Python.
Once again, my problem is that one cannot insert “foo” inside strings
(unless in languages where strings are quoted 'like this', I guess).
So I'm saying that we probably shouldn't advertise this method for
text in strings in programming modes, because it doesn't really work
there.