GNU bug report logs - #24295
24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:33:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Done: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 24295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 24295 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#24295: 24.5; RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK has punctuation
 syntax in Elisp, but acts like a symbol constituent
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:52:25 -0700 (PDT)

> In what way does it show that??  A symbol's name can be any arbitrary
> string, there's no significance to the syntax class of the characters.

Silly me.  Of course that's right.

Nevertheless, there seems to be a problem, but it is not what
I thought.

M-: (global-set-key (kbd "C-o") ’forward-char)

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable ’forward-char)
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-o") ’forward-char)
  eval((global-set-key (kbd "C-o") ’forward-char) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)
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