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25.0.50; Wrong curly quotes in the docstring for font-lock-add-keywords

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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21619 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21619: 25.0.50; Wrong curly quotes in the docstring for font-lock-add-keywords
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:15:36 +0100

2015-10-05 17:28 GMT+01:00 Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>:
> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> The docstring for this function (when displayed in a help buffer) has
>> the following code-snippet, which clearly has the wrong type of
>> quotes.
>>
>> (font-lock-add-keywords ’c-mode
>>   ’(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 ’font-lock-warning-face prepend)
>>     ("\\<\\(and\\|or\\|not\\)\\>" . ’font-lock-keyword-face)))
>>
>> Instead of fixing this by manually escaping them, how about we change
>> the algorithm to only convert `...' quotes if the ... is a single
>> symbol?
>>
>>
>
>
> Looks like it got fixed in this commit:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?
> id=47e9556c70a7009d7c750fd7bf10a0e6cf41cdce
>
>
> - (sql-add-product-keywords 'ms
> -  '((\"\\\\b\\\\w+_t\\\\b\" . font-lock-type-face)))
> + (sql-add-product-keywords \\='ms
> +  \\='((\"\\\\b\\\\w+_t\\\\b\" . font-lock-type-face)))

I'm confused. That link appears to be a merge commit, and the snippet
you quote doesn't apply to the snippet I had quotedl.

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