bug#33940: 27.0.50; ?\^c syntax confuses scanning

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

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Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Yes, with exactly that recipe, but with emacs built from the master
> branch, please.  Oh, and happy new year, if you not are still in the old
> one.

The same for you! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction; I installed the 
attached patch.

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From 504457673dabfa89cb2eac89f093f10736c52ca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 11:35:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix woman.el to not confuse scan-sexps

* lisp/woman.el (woman-unpadded-space-char):
Escape the close-bracket (Bug#33940).
---
 lisp/woman.el | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/woman.el b/lisp/woman.el
index 13aea5d91c..9548fdc6b3 100644
--- a/lisp/woman.el
+++ b/lisp/woman.el
@@ -2078,7 +2078,7 @@ woman-escaped-escape-string
   (char-to-string woman-escaped-escape-char)
   "Internal string representation of escaped escape characters.")
 
-(defconst woman-unpadded-space-char ?\^]
+(defconst woman-unpadded-space-char ?\^\]
   ;; An arbitrary unused control character
   "Internal character representation of unpadded space characters.")
 (defconst woman-unpadded-space-string
-- 
2.17.1