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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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; variable-at-point fails due to curly quotes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:51:12 +0000

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.
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