marmot-te writes: > I constated that using the read syntaxe ?\“ > will interfere with any prettified symbols below it in the buffer. > > To reproduce : > (setq-default prettify-symbols-alist ’((“lambda” . 955))) > (prettify-symbols-mode 0) > (prettify-symbols-mode 1) > lambda > ?\“ > lambda I'm guessing that your mail software has destroyed the code example, and that it was supposed to be: (setq-default prettify-symbols-alist '(("lambda" . 955))) (prettify-symbols-mode 0) (prettify-symbols-mode 1) lambda ?\" lambda If I try that example, though, I'm not able to reproduce the bug. I get: