Re: A simple solution to "Upcoming loss of usability ..."

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/26/2015 01:34 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Even with the font-lock approach, curved quotes will commonly appear on
> the screen and users and developers will have to deal with them,

Not if they aren't in source files, and if the user decided to turn off 
their rendering.

> I have been seriously considering font-lock approaches but so far they
> appear to be more confusing and less reliable than the alternatives.
> For example, how would font-lock alter the quotes that Emacs outputs in
> batch diagnostics?

It probably won't, you'll need a different function. However, 
substitute-command-keys wouldn't seem right for that purpose either (are 
there any command keys in diagnostics?).