Re: Emacs 26.1 release branch created

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, John and Eli.

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 15:56:02 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I've created a new emacs-26 branch which will be used to release Emacs
> 26.x, starting with Emacs 26.1.  This branch should be used for fixing
> bugs; new development should continue on master.  (If there are
> features that are already on the branch, and their developers want to
> put a few finishing touches or additions to those features, please ask
> here before pushing further changes that are not bugfixes.)

[ .... ]

> Nicolas, please produce the first pretest in, say, a week's time.
> Let's optimistically call that pretest 26.0.90.

This is rather sudden, leaving not much time for last minute
enhancements.

Can we please have a user option in Emacs 26 to disable curly quote
translation in messages and doc strings?  I am (more than) willing to
implement and document this, and could do so quickly.

> Thanks.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).