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

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>
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 11:51:50 +0000

> 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).

I think it still matters because Help buffers still use curly quotes,
and one might need `variable-at-point' to work inside help buffers.
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