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 #20 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 18:59:47 -0700 (PDT)

> M-: (global-set-key (kbd "C-o") ’forward-char)
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable ’forward-char)

Well, I guess that's not a problem either.   Pretty much anything
that is not a paren, quote, backquote, comma, or isolated period
will be taken as part of a symbol name here.

I'll close the bug, I guess.
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