Subject: bug#23913: 24.5; Stray : at top level in tramp.el

From: Joel Ray Holveck <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 01:40:23 -0700

In tramp.el, at line 3620, there's a line:

    :;; Utility functions:

It seems highly likely that the colon was meant to be a semicolon.

This does not seem to have any particularly deleterious effect.  In my
Emacs, at least, ': is boundp with the value ':, so it's useless but
harmless at the top level.  Nevertheless, it's against convention.

joelh

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i386-portbld-freebsd10.3, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
 of 2016-06-01 on thor.piquan.org
Configured using:
 `configure --localstatedir=/var --with-dbus --without-file-notification
 --with-gconf --with-gif --with-gnutls --with-gsettings --with-jpeg
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 --with-xim --with-xml2 --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=athena
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 --build=i386-portbld-freebsd10.3 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -O2
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