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Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?


From: Clément Pit-Claudel
Subject: Re: Change of Lisp syntax for "fancy" quotes in Emacs 27?
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 10:36:49 -0500
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On 2018-02-04 05:34, Alan Third wrote:
> Symbol's value as variable is void: 'аbbrevs-changed
> Did you mean `abbrevs-changed'?
> Symbol contains `а' (CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A) at character 0, did you
> mean `a' (LATIN SMALL LETTER A)?

That would be pretty cool.

> The middle line would require Emacs to do a fuzzy search for similar
> symbols, which may be too much.

OCaml does this (but at compile time).  Do we have a way to delay the fuzzy 
search to the point when the error message is displayed?  Otherwise we'll pay 
the price of the search even if the error is then swallowed by a condition-case.



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