1. open emacs. emacs -q
2. open new buffer ^X b foo
3. enter lisp mode, M-x lisp-mode
4. enter the following multi-line lisp string:
"
()
"

The opening parenthesis has to be the first character on the line.

Note that the opening parenthesis remains highlighted.

I believe this bug has consequences for Slime and Paredit.
Slime won't let me evaluate expressions with such a string.
And Paredit is confused.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.0)
of 2013-04-14 on marid, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation