Subject: bug#21871: Emacs Lisp Mode (at least): spurious parens in column 0 don't get bold red highlighting.

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:12:41 +0000

Hello, Glenn.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > Thinking about it, this is surely a bug in the documentation.

> I disagree, since it works as documented in Emacs 24.3.
> It seems to have been broken since 24.4.

Thanks for that tip.  The code for it (in font-lock-compile-keywords) is
still there, but somehow one of a list of conditions which prevent it
being activated has become set.

I'm looking into it.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).