Re: Syntax highlighting and indentation fails when there are parenthesis in the doc string

[Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de>]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:14:14 +0200, "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:

> This is for emacs 21.3. To show the bug take the code below and put
> it in a buffer in emacs-lisp-mode. Then follow the instructions in
> the doc string.
>
> I have tested this on ms windows.
>
> - Lennart
>
> (defcustom some-variable t
>   "Some doc with paretheses:
> (this is the line that give the error)
> This will mess indentation and syntax coloring in the properties part below.
> Please delete and put back lines below to show the problem!
> Do the same thing with the line above with parenthesis deleted."
>   :tag "Some Tag"
>   :group 'some-group
>   :type 'boolean
>   :set (lambda (symbol value)
>   (add-to-list 'some-hook 'the-hook-fun)
>   (set-default symbol value)
>   (unless (boundp 'some-key) (setq some-key "\C-c\C-z"))
>  )
>   )

This is not a bug, it's documented somewhere (although I can't find
the reference right now). To prevent this either prepend open
parentheses in a docstring with a backslash - I think that's the
recommended way - or set open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start to NIL.

Cheers,
Edi.