Re: Emacs is lying to me, or curly quotes strike again

[Kaushal Modi]

This is how the single quotes are escaped in the js-jsx-mode documentation in emacs master: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/progmodes/js.el?id=a7e302dc1dc18770aaf9eeedfd638f73b574bc19#n3787

(define-derived-mode js-jsx-mode js-mode "JSX"

  "Major mode for editing JSX.

To customize the indentation for this mode, set the SGML offset

variables (`sgml-basic-offset', `sgml-attribute-offset' et al.)

locally, like so:

  (defun set-jsx-indentation ()

    (setq-local sgml-basic-offset js-indent-level))

  (add-hook \\='js-jsx-mode-hook #\\='set-jsx-indentation)"

The js2-jsx-mode docstring ( https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/49f9761af75f8df2f73bef61a7742acd8c50d7fb/js2-mode.el#L11615-11623 ) is missing those escapes. You need to open an issue on that package's github/send PR to fix it.

(define-derived-mode js2-jsx-mode js2-mode "JSX-IDE"

  "Major mode for editing JSX code.

To customize the indentation for this mode, set the SGML offset

variables (`sgml-basic-offset' et al) locally, like so:

  (defun set-jsx-indentation ()

    (setq-local sgml-basic-offset js2-basic-offset))

  (add-hook 'js2-jsx-mode-hook #'set-jsx-indentation)"             ; Missing escapes for single quotes on this line

PS: I was against the curly quotes too. But now I like them :)

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:46 AM Kaushal Modi <address@hidden> wrote:

What is jsx-ide mode? Is it part of emacs? If not, the package author needs to fix the documentation.

The closest thing in emacs I could find was js-jsx-mode and the quotes show up correctly for that: http://i.imgur.com/NCPpuzv.png

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:54 AM Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi all,

Here's a snippet from a *Help* buffer for JSX-IDE mode:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
JSX-IDE mode defined in ‘js2-mode.el’:
Major mode for editing JSX code.

To customize the indentation for this mode, set the SGML offset
variables (‘sgml-basic-offset’ et al) locally, like so:

  (defun set-jsx-indentation ()
    (setq-local sgml-basic-offset js2-basic-offset))
  (add-hook ’js2-jsx-mode-hook #’set-jsx-indentation)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

While I do understand that I could toggle some switch to turn off these
retarded curly quotes, but a CODE SNIPPET in a HELP BUFFER should be
COPY-PASTEABLE BY DEFAULT.  (I'm sorry for my angry tone, but this is
yet another case of curly quotes causing problems, and giving NOTHING in
return.  And so many people warned about this - and yet this buggy
behavior was made the default...)

I'm on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.3 (commit debd49b).

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University

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Kaushal Modi

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