Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.

[Paul Eggert]

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > A simple approach would be to extend 'format' via a ` flag, so that we
> > can replace (format "Rename `%s' to `%s'" old new) with (format
> > "Rename %`s to %`s" old new) to get customizable quotes, but this
> > would entail changing several format calls in the source and I am
> > trying to think of something less intrusive.
>
> My usual rant: this is not backward compatible, and would bring
> tramp*.el sources into trouble. And yes, Tramp sends this kind of
> messages.

By "backward compatible", I assume you mean that code using the new ` flag would 
not be portable to older Emacs.  There shouldn't be any compatibility problem in 
the usual sense, as the change would be a pure extension to 'format', i.e, it 
wouldn't affect Tramp's behavior if we left Tramp alone.