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From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: 74307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74307: 30.0.92; emacs-lisp font-locking word regexp
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:28:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzdawagd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)

Starting from emacs -Q, put the following into a buffer with
emacs-lisp-mode

  (setq foo "\\<foo\\>")

The part "foo\\" of the string "\\<foo\\>" will get
font-lock-variable-name-face, which looks odd.

I believe, this is due to a clause in lisp-mode.el that says

         ;; Words inside \\[], \\<>, \\{} or \\`' tend to be for
         ;; `substitute-command-keys'.

But this assumption is not always correct, in particular if ">" is
preceded by "\\", which happens when constructing regexps.





             reply	other threads:[~2024-11-11  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-11  6:28 Roland Winkler [this message]
2024-11-14  8:11 ` bug#74307: 30.0.92; emacs-lisp font-locking word regexp Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-14 16:24   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-11-16 14:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-14 16:49   ` Roland Winkler

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