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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#51040: No curved quotes in format-prompt and minibuffer-default-prompt-format |
Date: | Wed, 13 Oct 2021 02:44:56 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 |
On 12.10.2021 21:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
This change is about avoiding the inconsistency where `format-messages' does quote substitutions but `format-prompt' does not.What inconsistency? format-messages is about echo-area messages, whereas format-prompt is about something else.
They're displayed in the same area of the screen, and with similar purpose (telling something to the user; prompts also ask something back, messages do not).
The different between the echo area and the minibuffer is subtle enough for most users, so this kind of difference will almost certainly be perceived as inconsistency.
I think the main reason this question hasn't come up before is that having any quotes in the prompt, `...' or not, is very rare. Offhand, I've found only two such instances in Emacs source tree (in faces.el).
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