Subject: bug#16670: mistreaded '(' in left-most column when quoted in a string

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:58:27 -0500

Chaos Eternal wrote:

> (let ((a "
> string begins here
> ( ;; this left parenthesis will be mistreaded as start of a expression
> "
>    )) ;; parenthesis-matching from this line will get broken.

Hi, this is a documented issue.
See info node `(emacs)Left Margin Paren'.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Left-Margin-Paren.html