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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors
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Paul Eggert |
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bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors |
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Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:01:08 -0700 |
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On 06/01/2015 03:49 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Currently, we can grep C source code (whether on the command line or
within Emacs), specifically specifying quote characters like " (even if
they have to be escaped).
Having just gone through this exercise, I can say that it doesn't work
as well as I had hoped. Characters are sometimes escaped, sometimes
not, and even something easy like searching for '`' finds many false
hits in comments.
OK, there may be some arcane way of specifying these curly quotes
Hmm, well, it's not arcane for me. This shell command:
grep ‘ *.c
generates all .c lines that contain left single quotation mark in a
string (after the proposed patch is applied). This is simpler than any
shell command to find apostrophe or double-quote or grave accent.
Curly quotes display as ? on my terminal, sometimes inverted.
That's not good. What terminal are you using, and why does it not
handle UTF-8? What is your operating system and locale settings? If
this is a common problem among Emacs developers, I suppose we'll have to
come up with a different way.
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
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- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors,
Paul Eggert <=
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/01
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Drew Adams, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/06/02
- bug#20707: [PROPOSED PATCH] Use curved quoting in C-generated errors, Paul Eggert, 2015/06/04