Re: Should substitute-command-keys remove text properties of strings containing quotes?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:38:59 -0500
> 
> In Emacs 25, substitute-command-keys removes text properties of strings 
> containing quotes. Is this expected?

Yes, expected.  Although it's not very nice, IMO.

> > In Emacs 25:
> (substitute-command-keys (propertize "`a'" 'prop 'val))
> "‘a’"
> 
> > In Emacs 24.5:
> (substitute-command-keys (propertize "`a'" 'prop 'val))
> #("`a'" 0 3 (prop val))

Anything that is substituted has its test properties removed:

  (substitute-command-keys (propertize "\\[forward-char]" 'prop 'val))
   => "C-f"

The above is from Emacs 24.5.

I think patches are welcome to reinstate the properties.