From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#45428: 27.1; (quote (quote (quote ...))) unexpectedly works as anonymous face Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:34:58 +0200 Message-ID: <83im8lk9lp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<<<>>>> <<<<<87eejc9pnm.fsf@gnus.org>>>>> <<<<>>>> <<<<<5e99c39b-b67b-4184-a890-2cae38fb40de@default>>>>> <<<<<87a6tzk5iv.fsf@metalevel.at>>>>> <<<<<83h7o7kufk.fsf@gnu.org>>>>> <<<<975c150b-99aa-4143-b057-8b5ec7caec19@default>>>> <<<<838s9jkqh7.fsf@gnu.org>>>> <<>> <<<835z4mkpvz.fsf@gnu.org>>> <<5dfff982-e496-46fe-9efd-1e0edd4f0be8@default>> <<83o8idkehc.fsf@gnu.org>> <<83mtxxkcwk.fsf@gnu.org>> <9a600718-7caf-4ad0-a664-0ebafba63e57@default> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37386"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, triska@metalevel.at, 45428@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 28 20:36:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyJO-0009a2-1s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:36:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53358 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyJM-0001G2-N1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:36:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyJG-0001Fi-Pl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53623) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyJG-00085G-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyJG-0002Hw-Fs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 45428 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 45428-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B45428.16091841238750 (code B ref 45428); Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 45428) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Dec 2020 19:35:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36936 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyId-0002H4-Bx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:35:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52728) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyIb-0002Gl-4G for 45428@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46288) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyIU-0007fK-Hv; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3717 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktyIO-0004dN-5n; Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:35:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9a600718-7caf-4ad0-a664-0ebafba63e57@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:54:58 -0800 (PST)) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:196892 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:54:58 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se, triska@metalevel.at, > 45428@debbugs.gnu.org > > I see the same thing that I see when I use this: > > (insert (propertize "hello" 'face '(:height 10.0))) Not exactly the same, see below. > The bug, IMO, is that this is not "a sequence of > PROPERY VALUE pairs...", which is what the doc > says it should be: > > (quote (quote '(:height 10.0))) Right, it's not. > I wouldn't think of this as a doc bug because (1) > this behavior is so unusual Which behavior are you alluding to here? and what is the "doc bug", exactly? > Wrt #1: nowhere else, AFAIK, do we accept > (quote (quote (quote SEXP))) > or (quote (quote (quote (quote (quote SEXP))))) > or as a substitute for SEXP. We don't "accept" it here, either. > We don't do that anywhere else, and I don't see > why we should do it here (or anywhere)? We don't. Please look in *Messages*, and you will see that. > You've said, I think, that you too see no reason > why this is done, except the possible historical > one of it having just happened by "accident". I'm beginning to think that we were talking about two different instances of "this".