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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
Cc: 21939@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:15:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wptg98si.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877flgzyov.fsf@gmail.com> (Artur Malabarba's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:51:12 +0000")

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Type ‘unbound-var’ in a docstring.
> 2. Place point on the ‘v’.
> 3. Type M-: (variable-at-point t).
>
> You get 0.
>
> Now do the same thing writing `unbound-var' instead. The return value
> will be the correct symbol.

Since the markup for variables in a docstring is `', not curly quotes, I
don't think this matters.

We were playing with curly quotes in docstrings, but that got rejected
(as far as I recall).

-- 
-- Stephe





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 10:51 bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes Artur Malabarba
2015-11-17 10:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2015-11-17 11:15 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-11-17 11:51   ` Artur Malabarba
2021-08-15 13:12     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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