GNU bug report logs - #21939
25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:53:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 21939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>
To: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21939 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21939: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:15:09 -0600

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Type ‘unbound-var’ in a docstring.
> 2. Place point on the ‘v’.
> 3. Type M-: (variable-at-point t).
>
> You get 0.
>
> Now do the same thing writing `unbound-var' instead. The return value
> will be the correct symbol.

Since the markup for variables in a docstring is `', not curly quotes, I
don't think this matters.

We were playing with curly quotes in docstrings, but that got rejected
(as far as I recall).

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-- Stephe
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