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

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 at 17:24, Noam Postavsky
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In Emacs 26 and earlier the following is valid lisp code:
>
> (setq ’bar 42)
> (setq foo ’bar)
>
> In the current master branch, this will signal (invalid-read-syntax
> "strange quote" "’").

I've posted a patch which removes the error in this case, and instead
just adds to the error message if evaluating an expression with a
fancy quote leads to an error, see Bug#32939
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32939>.

Archive link to previous discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-02/msg00093.html