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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 24.5, 24.4

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 21871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21871: Emacs Lisp Mode (at least): spurious parens in column
 0	don't get bold red highlighting.
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).
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