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


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: Translation of single quotes in doc strings is now optional.
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:32:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

For sure. However, Tramp uses the same wording as the original functions
it provides handlers for. As a consequence, a user would see the message
"Rename ‘old’ to ‘new’" for local files, and "Rename `old' to `new'" for
remote files. This looks inconsistent.

Best regards, Michael.



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