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Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quot


From: Clément Pit-Claudel
Subject: Re: bug#23425: master branch: `message' wrongly corrupts ' to curly quote.
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 17:05:43 -0400
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On 2017-06-05 16:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>  How do you propose to prevent such puzzlement and anger in the
> future, if not by %` and %'?

Note that this introduces a backwards compatibility issue, if not done 
carefully:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Not enough arguments for format string")
    message("%`woops%'")
    eval((message "%`woops%'") nil)

Did something similar happen with \=' ?

Clément.



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