Re: today's Gnulib autoupdate changed quoting style in INSTALL?

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-01-07 15:07, Karl Berry wrote:
> I'm using makeinfo 7.1. Maybe that is the difference? 

Yes, thanks, that explains it. I installed the attached patch to work 
around the quoting style glitch. With the patch, things should work fine 
the next time you run autoupdate with a changed doc/install.texi.


> Wouldn't it be better for INSTALL to be (entirely) 7-bit ASCII instead
> of UTF-8, given the existence of INSTALL.UTF-8? Otherwise, what's the
> point of INSTALL.UTF-8?

The idea was that there are two variants, INSTALL.ISO (which is ASCII 
only) and INSTALL.UTF-8 (which uses UTF-8). INSTALL was originally a 
copy of INSTALL.ISO, but in June we changed this because support for 
UTF-8 is now universal and searching for apostrophes is not all that 
common in that file.


> it's a lot easier to grep ASCII.

True, but people don't normally use commands like ‘grep "'" INSTALL’.

I also found directed quotes to be an irritation when using Emacs. 
However, there's a partial workaround. Put this into your init file:

(setq search-default-mode 'char-fold-to-regexp)

With this setting, interactive searching for ' will also find directed 
single quotes, and likewise for similar glitches. You can also use M-s ' 
within an interactive search to toggle char-fold-to-regexp. This may 
help to reduce (though of course not eliminate) the irritation. For 
more, see:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Lax-Search.html

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