Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9ce1d38: Use curved quotes in core elisp diagnostics

[Paul Eggert]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> With that in mind, why can't format-message translate ` and ' to curlies? Then
> we won't need the latter in the source code.

Thanks, this sounds like a good suggestion.  We couldn't do this earlier, 
because changing ‘format’ in this way would have too many compatibility issues, 
but now that we have split ‘format-message’ out, the basic idea should work and 
should lessen the hassle of converting messages.  It also should mean that we 
don't need %< or %> or even %q.  I'll look into it.

Although I'm with Stefan about the yuck factor with ‘format-message’, this does 
seem to be the sort of thing that we could all sort of live with, i.e., one of 
the better of an unpleasant set of options....